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Wednesday, December 29 2021 - Wed. 12/29 – Has Your LastPass Password Been Compromised?

• LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised (BleepingComputer)
• Apple Aims to Prevent Defections to Meta With Rare $180,000 Bonuses for Top Talent (Bloomberg)
• Google and Tech Rivals Tap Cash Reserves to Realize Cloud Ambitions (WSJ)

Tuesday, December 28 2021 - Tue. 12/28 – China Is Mad At Elon’s Satellites

• China berates US after ‘close encounters’ with Elon Musk satellites (The Guardian)
• Xiaomi 12 and 12 Pro debut with Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipsets, Xiaomi 12X comes with SD870 (GSMArena)
• Sidewalk Robots Find Foothold on College Campuses (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• How Tiger Global, SoftBank Vision Fund And Insight Partners Changed The Venture Landscape In 2021 (Crunchbase News)
• Truly Terrible Performers Multiply Among Startups Taking SPAC Route To Market (Crunchbase News)
• Record Number Of VC-Backed Cyber Companies Acquired in 2021, Even As Venture Funding Hits New Highs (Crunchbase News)

Monday, December 27 2021 - Mon. 12/27 – Gibraltar To Become The Rock Of Crypto?

• ‘Blockchain Rock’: Gibraltar moves to become world’s first cryptocurrency hub (The Guardian)
• Amazon’s Alexa Stalled With Users as Interest Faded, Documents Show (Bloomberg)
• Decentralized exchanges saw over $1 trillion in trading volume this year (The Block)
• Centralized crypto exchanges saw over $14 trillion in trading volume this year (The Block)
• Everything You Need to Know About OpenDAO’s SOS Token Airdrop for OpenSea Users (Decrypt)

Thursday, December 23 2021 - (TWTR SPC) The Top 10 Tech Stories Of 2021 (And The Spatial Pivot)

• Dataiku.com
• FindYourFidelity.com

Wednesday, December 22 2021 - Wed. 12/22 – We Still Doing CES?

• Amazon, Meta Scrap CES Plans in Las Vegas After Covid Surge (Bloomberg)
• In 2021, the Internet went for TikTok, space and beyond (CloudFlare Blog)
• Americans widely distrust Facebook, TikTok and Instagram with their data, poll finds (Washington Post)
• Justin Kan’s NFT platform suffers rocky debut as scammer makes off with $150K in user funds (TechCrunch)
• Arsenal fan token posts broke advertising rules, says watchdog (BBCNews)
• Elon Musk: metaverse isn’t ‘compelling’ and Web3 ‘more marketing than reality’ (The Verge)

Tuesday, December 21 2021 - @Jack And The Tech (Cold) Civil War Over Web3

• Jack Dorsey Stirs Uproar by Dismissing Web3 as a Venture Capitalists’ Plaything (Bloomberg)
• The New Get-Rich-Faster Job in Silicon Valley: Crypto Start-Ups (NYTimes)
• OnlyFans Names Marketing Chief Ami Gan as CEO; Founder Steps Down (Bloomberg)
• Zhang Yiming Still Oversees ByteDance, Despite Stepping Back (The Information)
• Starlink Expands but Q3 2021 Performance Flattens in Some Areas (SpeedTest.net)

Monday, December 20 2021 - Mon. 12/20 – 5G To Ground Airlines?

• Airlines Brace for Flight Restrictions in 5G Standoff (WSJ)
• Semi CapEx to Hit $152 Billion in 2021 (AnandTech)
• Rec Room raises $145M at a $3.5B valuation for its user-generated, immersive gaming platform (TechCrunch)
• Why Xbox’s Phil Spencer thinks Minecraft is a blueprint for the metaverse (Protocol)

Friday, December 17 2021 - Fri. 12/17 – Apple Really Is Going To Do The Whole Widget, Aren’t They?

• Apple Builds New Team in Southern California to Bring More Wireless Chips In-House (Bloomberg)
• Biden administration concerned about U.S. investments in Chinese tech companies with military or surveillance ties (Washington Post)
• FTC Slows Meta Platforms’ Metaverse Strategy By Extending Antitrust Probe of VR Deal (The Information)
• Players invest $54M in Molyneux’s NFT game Legacy in hopes of earning even more (Ars Technica)
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 will no longer have NFTs after fan outcry (The Verge)

Thursday, December 16 2021 - Thu. 12/16 – Reddit Files For An IPO

• Reddit Files Confidentially for IPO (WSJ)
• Apple Scraps Office-Return Deadline Without Setting New Date (Bloomberg)
• H&R Block Sues Block, Formerly Square, for Trademark Infringement (WSJ)
• Adidas Originals launches NFTs and buys a plot in the Sandbox metaverse (VentureBeat)
• Scoop: Crypto investor Katie Haun leaving Andreessen Horowitz (Axios)
• Solid-State Batteries Are Here and They’re Going to Change How We Live (Popular Mechanics)

Wednesday, December 15 2021 - Wed. 12/15 – Google To Adopt Vaccine Mandate?

• Google tells employees they’ll lose pay and will eventually be fired if they don’t follow vaccination rules (CNBC)
• Oppo’s Find N is an impressive first folding phone (The Verge)
• Twitter adds auto captions feature to make videos more accessible (TechCrunch)
• Apple and Google’s mobile duopoly likely to face UK antitrust action (TechCrunch)
• US to blacklist eight more Chinese companies including dronemaker DJI (FT)
• How Shein beat Amazon at its own game — and reinvented fast fashion (Rest of World)

Tuesday, December 14 2021 - Tue. 12/14 – Is Log4j The Worst Bug Of All Time?

• CISA warns ‘most serious’ Log4j vulnerability likely to affect hundreds of millions of devices (CyberScoop)
• The numbers behind a cyber pandemic – detailed dive (Check Point)
• Apple launches AirTags and Find My detector app for Android, in effort to boost privacy (CNET)
• Oppo announces Air Glass ‘assisted reality’ device (The Verge)
• Amazon Ramps Up Plans for Instacart-Like Service in U.S., Europe (The Information)
• Nike acquires NFT collectibles studio RTFKT (TechCrunch)
• Facebook Owner Is Involved in $60M Deal Over Meta Trademark Assets (Coinspeaker)

Monday, December 13 2021 - Mon. 12/13 – Why the Log4j Bug Is Such A Big Deal

• Zero-day in ubiquitous Log4j tool poses a grave threat to the Internet (Ars Technica)
• The Internet’s biggest players are all affected by critical Log4Shell 0-day (Ars Technica)
• PROFESSIONAL MAINTAINERS: A WAKE-UP CALL (Filippo.io)
• Apple Set to Release Nudity Detection in Texting, But Other Features Remain on Hold (Bloomberg)
• Her Instagram Handle Was ‘Metaverse.’ Last Month, It Vanished. (NYTimes)
• Bored Ape Yacht Club: Someone accidentally sold a $300,000 NFT for $3,000 (CNET)

Saturday, December 11 2021 - (Bonus) a16z’s Andrew Chen On The Cold Start Problem

• RadPowerBikes.com
• AltoIra.com/techmeme

Friday, December 10 2021 - Fri. 12/10 – Google Play Games Coming To Windows

• Google is bringing Android games to Windows in 2022 (The Verge)
• MICROSOFT QUIETLY TOLD APPLE IT WAS WILLING TO TURN BIG XBOX-EXCLUSIVE GAMES INTO IPHONE APPS (The Verge)
• Meta opens up access to its VR social platform Horizon Worlds (The Verge)
• Football fans spending millions on club crypto-tokens (BBC News)

Thursday, December 09 2021 - Thu. 12/09 – Instagram To Return To A Chronological Feed

• Instagram Chief and Lawmakers Clash Over App’s Real World Harms (Bloomberg)
• Instagram will bring back a chronological feed in 2022 (Engadget)
• What we learned at Congress’ much-anticipated summit of crypto execs (The Block)
• Epic v. Apple ruling put on hold after appeals court grants a stay (The Verge)
• Italy fines Amazon €1.13B for abusing market dominance (Politico.eu)
• WhatsApp launches cryptocurrency payment in the US with Novi (9to5Mac)
• Kickstarter Will Move Its Crowdfunding Platform to Blockchain (Bloomberg)
• DeepMind says its new language model can beat others 25 times its size (MIT Technology Review)
• Amazon is shutting down web ranking site Alexa.com (BleepingComputer)

Wednesday, December 08 2021 - Wed. 12/08 – AWS Outage Is Why You Didn’t Get Your Package

• An Amazon server outage caused problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and deliveries (The Verge)
• AWS Outage Grinds Amazon Warehouses and Deliveries to a Halt (Motherboard)
• Kuo: AirPods Pro 2 With New Design and Improved Chip to Launch in Late 2022 (Macrumors)
• Kuo: Second-Generation Apple AR Headset to Launch in 2024 With Lighter Design, Redesigned Battery System, and More (Macrumors)
• Ubisoft Becomes First Major Gaming Company to Launch In-Game NFTs (Decrypt)
• Roku, Google settle messy battle over YouTube distribution (Axios)
• Facebook’s new website lets fans buy ‘Stars’ without paying the app stores’ commissions (TechCrunch)
• African Startup Inflows Seen Hitting Record $5 Billion This Yea (Bloomberg)
• Twitter’s New CEO Agrawal Got Early Nod From Dorsey a Year Ago (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, December 07 2021 - Tue. 12/07 – Tim Cook’s Secret China Deal?

• Facing Hostile Chinese Authorities, Apple CEO Signed $275 Billion Deal With Them (The Information)
• Samsung’s mobile and consumer electronic divisions merge into one in exec reshuffle (ZDNet)
• Intel to List Shares in Mobileye Unit (WSJ)
• The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users (The Markup)
• Microsoft Office prices going up 20% for some business clients unless they move from monthly to annual subscriptions (CNBC)
• European start-up funding triples to a new record above $100 billion this year (CNBC)
• Honeywell Unit Offers First-Ever Quantum-Created Encryption Key (Bloomberg)

Monday, December 06 2021 - Mon. 12/06 – DoorDash Tries Something Radical: Employees

• DoorDash breaks gig worker model to hire couriers as employees in New York trial (FT)
• Apple Attempts to Stop Developers Promoting Alternative Payment Options for In-App Purchases in Russia (MacRumors)
• Crypto exchange BitMart confirms hack resulting in loss of $150 million in crypto (The Block)
• The Verizon app might be collecting your browsing history and more (The Verge)
• Apple iPhone 13 Rebates Fail to Deliver for Some Buyers (Bloomberg)
• BuzzFeed Tumbles in Turbulent Debut for Digital Media (Bloomberg)

Saturday, December 04 2021 - (TWTR SPC) Jack Dorsey, Halo Infinite And Foldable Phones

• AltoIra.com/techmeme
• RadPowerBikes.com

Friday, December 03 2021 - Fri. 12/03 – Acquisition Deathwatch: Nvidia/Arm

• FTC Challenges Nvidia’s Deal for Arm Holdings (WSJ)
• EXCLUSIVE: Google readies ‘Pixel Watch’ for 2022 launch as it renews ambitions in wearable tech (Insider)
• Didi bows to China regulatory pressure, will delist from NYSE (Reuters)
• Why Instagram Asks Users to Create Second Accounts (WSJ)

Thursday, December 02 2021 - Thu. 12/02 – Square Changes Its Name To Block

• Jack Dorsey’s Square changes corporate name to Block (CNBC)
• Apple Tells Suppliers iPhone Demand Has Slowed as Holidays Near (Bloomberg)
• Instacart Plans 15-Minute Delivery Trial as Rival Startups Grow (The Information)
• Microsoft Teams Essentials is a new standalone version for small businesses (The Verge)
• TikTok adds creator monetization features, including tips and video gifts (TechCrunch)
• 37 Percent of the World’s Population Has Never Been Online, U.N. Report Finds (Gizmodo)
• The art and science of Spotify Wrapped (Protocol)

Wednesday, December 01 2021 - Wed. 12/01 – Twitter Bans “Private” Sharing

• Twitter bans sharing ‘private’ images and videos without consent (Engadget)
• Meta’s David Marcus, Creator of Embattled Diem Project, to Leave Company (Bloomberg)
• Quest v35 Update To Add iPhone Mixed Reality Capture, Messenger Calling (UploadVR)
• China to Close Loophole Used by Tech Firms for Foreign IPOs (Bloomberg)
• Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip is here to power the Android flagships of 2022 (The Verge)
• Q3’21 Was a Record Quarter for Foldable Smartphones, Samsung Enjoys a 93% Share per DSCC Report (DSCC)
• Dorsey’s Twitter Departure Hints at Tech Moguls’ Restlessness (NYTimes)

Tuesday, November 30 2021 - Tue. 11/30 – Meta Might Do The Giphy Deal Anyway

• Meta ordered to sell Giphy by UK regulator (The Verge)
• Finland Battles ‘Exceptional’ Malware Attack Spread by Phones (Bloomberg)
• Cyber Monday Sales Flat as Smaller Savings Curb Incentive to Spend (WSJ)
• The Google Pixel 6 will refuse to charge if you use a low-quality USB-C cable or charger (AndroidPolice)
• Amazon launches AWS RoboRunner to support robotics apps (Venture Beat)
• Who Is Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s New C.E.O.? (NYTimes)

Monday, November 29 2021 - Mon. 11/29 – Jack Dorsey To Leave Twitter

• Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal will replace Jack Dorsey as CEO (CNBC)
• Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal replaces Jack Dorsey as CEO (The Verge)
• UK regulator expected to block Meta’s Giphy deal (FT)
• Social media companies could be forced to give out names and contact details, under new anti-troll laws (ABC News)
• EU companies issue formal complaint against Microsoft OneDrive Windows integration (ZDNet)
• Report: Apple still working on multi-device charger, a future where all devices ‘can charge each other’ (9to5Mac)
• Kuo: Apple AR Headset Coming in Late 2022 With Mac-Level Computing Power (MacRumors)
• Amazon Builds Out Network to Speed Delivery, Handle Holiday Crunch (WSJ)
• Amazon poised to pass UPS and FedEx to become largest U.S. delivery service by early 2022, exec says (CNBC)

Wednesday, November 24 2021 - (TWTR SPC) That Feeling When You Almost Buy The Constitution

• FindYourFidelity.com
• ARM Viewpoints Podcast (Apple Podcasts)
• VPLS.com/goit

Tuesday, November 23 2021 - Tue. 11/23 – How To Automate Your(self out of a?) Job

• Amazon and Apple handed $225 million in Italian antitrust fines (Reuters)
• Samsung to Choose Taylor, Texas, for $17 Billion Chip-Making Factory (WSJ)
• AirTag Competitor Tile Getting Acquired by Location Sharing App Life360 (MacRumors)
• Niantic raises $300M at at $9B valuation to build the ‘real-world metaverse’ (TechCrunch)
• Walmart will be the first retailer to test Twitter’s new livestream shopping platform (TechCrunch)
• “You’ve Won The Game”: Employee Hacks His Job, Gets Paid To Do Nothing For 5 Years (BoredPanda)

Monday, November 22 2021 - Mon. 11/22 – Adele Says: Spotify, No Shuffling!

• Adele gets Spotify to take shuffle button off all album pages (BBC News)
• Meta delays encrypted messages on Facebook and Instagram to 2023 (The Guardian)
• Wear OS Share Surges on Samsung’s Highest Quarterly Smartwatch Shipments in Q3 2021 (CounterpointResearch)
• India’s Paytm Tumbles Another 13% After First-Day IPO Flop (Boomberg)
• China’s exiled crypto machines fuel global mining boom (FT)
• Texas Plans to Become the Bitcoin Capital, Vulnerable Power Grid and All (Bloomberg)
• Desperate Parents Turn to Shopping Bots to Hunt for Hottest Christmas Gifts (WSJ)
• Sweden’s Ericsson snaps up cloud firm Vonage in $6.2 bln deal (Reuters)

Friday, November 19 2021 - Fri. 11/19 – ConstitutionDAO Lost The Auction For The Constitution.

• Crypto Investors Lose Out In $43.2 Million Sale Of Rare Copy Of U.S. Constitution (Forbes)
• Apple Accelerates Work on Car Project, Aiming for Fully Autonomous Vehicle (Bloomberg)
• Xbox Chief Says He’s Evaluating Relationship With Activision (Bloomberg)
• Gemini Raises $400 Million To Build A Metaverse Outside Facebook’s Walled Garden (Forbes)

Thursday, November 18 2021 - Thu. 11/18 – So… Who Actually “Takes Delivery” Of The Constitution?

• Paytm falls 27% on first trading day after India’s largest IPO (TechCrunch)
• Nvidia easily beats earnings expectations on strong gaming and data center sales (Yahoo!Finance)
• Grammarly raises $200M at a $13B valuation to make you an even better writer using AI (TechCrunch)
• AllTrails raises $150M after COVID accelerates people’s interest in exploring the outdoors (TechCrunch)
• Nreal’s $599 mixed reality glasses are launching in the US on Verizon (The Verge)
• Twitter partners with S&P 500 on stock index that crowdsources public opinion (CNET)
• Crypto Group’s Bid for Constitution Faces Real-World Snags—Who Picks It Up? (WSJ)

Wednesday, November 17 2021 - Wed. 11/17 – Apple Will Let You Do At-Home iPhone Repairs, Yourself

• Beginning next year, Apple will send you parts and tools to fix your iPhone and Mac at home (TechCrunch)
• Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Knew for Years About Sexual-Misconduct Allegations at Videogame Giant (WSJ)
• Goodbye, Staples Center. Hello, Crypto.com Arena (LA Times)
• Meta’s sci-fi haptic glove prototype lets you feel VR objects using air pockets (The Verge)
• Microsoft states that x64 emulation is only available on Windows 11 on ARM PCs (Windows Central)
• Netflix’s Expanded Viewing Data Move Is Mainly a Flex (Variety)
• Miramax Sues Quentin Tarantino Over ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFT Auction (Variety)

Tuesday, November 16 2021 - Tue. 11/16 – The War Between The Furries And The NFTs

• TWITTER MAKES BIG CHANGES FOR DEVS AS IT EYES DECENTRALIZED FUTURE (The Verge)
• Nvidia’s $40 billion takeover of chip designer Arm faces a UK national security probe (CNBC)
• Newsletter start-up Substack hits 1m subscribers (FT)
• Apple Defends Its Ads for Third-Party Apps, Says It Regularly Communicates With Developers and Has Been Running Them for Five Years (MacRumors)
• Right-clickers vs. the monkey JPG owners (Garbage Day)

Monday, November 15 2021 - Mon. 11/15 – Why Apple Buying Google Ads Might Be Weird

• Apple Quietly Buying Ads Via Google For High-Value Subscription Apps To Capture App Publisher Revenue (Fortune)
• Samsung releases Android 12-powered One UI 4 for Galaxy S21 phones (The Verge)
• Huawei Recruits Smartphone Partners to Sidestep U.S. Sanctions (Bloomberg)
• FBI system hacked to email ‘urgent’ warning about fake cyberattacks (Bleeping Computer)
• Hoax Email Blast Abused Poor Coding in FBI Website (KrebsOnSecurity)
• A major upgrade to bitcoin just activated — here’s what investors should know (CNBC Make It)
• A crypto group has raised nearly $3 million in Ether to bid on a rare copy of the U.S. Constitution (Fortune)

Saturday, November 13 2021 - (TWTR SPC) How To Build A Metaverse

• FirstRepublic.com
• Streak.com/techmeme

Friday, November 12 2021 - Fri. 11/12 – MoviePass Is Coming Back

• Google Caught Hackers Using a Mac Zero-Day Against Hong Kong Users (Vice)
• Amazon will let you easily share clips from its Prime Video content (The Verge)
• Spotify expands into audiobooks with acquisition of Findaway (TechCrunch)
• MoviePass cofounder Stacy Spikes has bought the company back and is planning a relaunch (Insider)

Thursday, November 11 2021 - Thu. 11/11 – Do Gamers Not Like Crypto?

• Discord pushes pause on exploring crypto and NFTs amidst user backlash (TechCrunch)
• Apple launches Apple Business Essentials: Device management, storage, onsite repairs, and more for one monthly price (9to5Mac)
• US sues Uber over ‘wait time’ fees for disabled passengers (Protocol)
• YouTube gives dislikes the thumbs-down, hides public counts (The Verge)
• Disney+ Subscriber Growth Slows, Company Misses Wall Street Expectations (The Hollywood Reporter)
• The World’s Largest Record Company Is Creating an NFT Super Group (Bloomberg)

Wednesday, November 10 2021 - Wed. 11/10 – Big Tech Smacked Down In Court

• Judge orders Apple to allow external payment options for App Store by December 9th, denying stay (The Verge)
• Google Loses Appeal of $2.8 Billion EU Shopping-Ads Fine (WSJ)
• Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Spaces try to make it easier to get apps ready for augmented reality (The Verge)
• Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital for over $1.6B (TechCrunch)
• Meta plans to remove thousands of sensitive ad-targeting categories. (NYTimes)
• Twitter will now let you pay to undo tweets and read ad-free news in the US (The Verge)

Tuesday, November 09 2021 - Tue. 11/09 – Robinhood Hacked By Unknown Bandits

• Robinhood says millions of customer names and email addresses taken in data breach (TechCrunch)
• US seizes $6 million in ransom payments and charges Ukrainian over major cyberattack (CNN)
• Netflix to Roll Out TikTok-Like Short Clip Feature Aimed at Kids (Bloomberg)
• Samsung’s new LPDDR5X DRAM is 1.3x faster and consumes 20% less power than LPDDR5 DRAM (XDA Developers)
• AMD lands Meta as customer and takes on Nvidia, sending shares up 11% (Reuters)
• Nvidia’s Riva Custom Voice lets companies create custom voices powered by AI (VentureBeat)
• Niantic launches platform to build ‘real-world metaverse’ apps (The Verge)

Monday, November 08 2021 - Mon. 11/08 – McAfee To Go Private

• McAfee to Be Taken Private in $14 Billion Deal Including Debt (Bloomberg)
• House Sends Infrastructure Bill With Crypto Tax Provision to US President (CoinDesk)
• NFT games are fun. Filing taxes afterward is a nightmare. (Protocol)
• Elon Musk’s Twitter Poll Results Favor Tesla Stock Sale (WSJ)
• A Drone Tried to Disrupt the Power Grid. It Won’t Be the Last (Wired)
• SoftBank Vision Fund Posts a Record Loss on Coupang’s Plunge (Bloomberg)

Friday, November 05 2021 - Fri. 11/05 – Meta To Open Metaverse Retail Stores?

• To Build the Metaverse, Meta First Wants to Build Stores (NYTimes)
• Apple’s Road Map for Mac Chips Shows Likely Advantage Over Intel (The Information)
• DJI Launches New Mavic 3 Drone With Longer Flight Time, Improved Cameras and New Safety Features (MacRumors)

Thursday, November 04 2021 - Thu. 11/04 – Instagram Can Post To Twitter Again

• Instagram brings back Twitter Card preview support for posts (TechCrunch)
• Facebook skirts Apple’s App Store fees with custom subscription links for creators (The Verge)
• Facebook is backing away from facial recognition. Meta isn’t. (Recode)
• Google Allows Alternate In-App Payment Options in South Korea, Though Familiar Fees Remain (WSJ)
• Google Wants to Work With the Pentagon Again, Despite Employee Concerns (NYTimes)
• STACK OVERFLOW’S COPY / PASTE KEYBOARD IS NO JOKE (The Verge)

Wednesday, November 03 2021 - Wed. 11/03 – Meta And Zillow Shut It Down

• Facebook, Citing Societal Concerns, Plans to Shut Down Facial Recognition System (NYTimes)
• Zillow to shutter home buying business and lay off 2,000 employees as its big real estate bet falters (GeekWire)
• CISA creates catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities, orders agencies to patch (The Record)
• Netflix games are coming to all members on Android, starting this week (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft Teams enters the metaverse race with 3D avatars and immersive meetings (The Verge)
• Loop app from Microsoft keeps projects in sync across Microsoft 365 (VentureBeat)

Tuesday, November 02 2021 - Tue. 11/02 – Apple Sacrifices iPad Production To Protect The iPhone

• Apple trims iPad production to feed chips to iPhone 13 (Nikkei Asia)
• Nintendo to make 20% fewer Switch consoles due to chip crunch (Nikkei Asia)
• Biden Administration to Congress: Put Stablecoins Under Federal Supervision – Or We Will (CoinDesk)
• Zoom is testing showing ads to free users (The Verge)
• ‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code (KrebsonSecurity)
• Zillow Seeks to Sell 7,000 Homes for $2.8 Billion After Flipping Halt (Bloomberg)
• Yahoo Pulls Out of China, Ending Tumultuous Two-Decade Relationship (WSJ)

Monday, November 01 2021 - Mon. 11/01 – How Much Money Is Apple’s ATT Costing Snap, Facebook, Et Al?

• Snap, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube lose nearly $10bn after iPhone privacy changes (FT)
• The Chip Shortage Slams Into Apple at the Worst Possible Time (Bloomberg)
• Global Chip Shortage ‘Is Far From Over’ as Wait Times Get Longer (WSJ)
• Apple Wants iPhones to Detect Car Crashes, Auto-Dial 911 (WSJ)
• Roblox Servers Are Turning Back On (Slowly) After 60+ Hour Outage (Kotaku)
• 5D data storage technology offers 10,000 times the density of Blu-ray (New Atlas)
• Snapchat Inks Deal With NBCUniversal to Use Audio From ‘SNL,’ ‘The Office’ and More (Exclusive) (The Hollywood Reporter)

Friday, October 29 2021 - Fri. 10/29 – Signs Of A Meta Watch

• Leaked Photo Shows Meta’s Planned Competitor to Apple Watch (Bloomberg)
• Meta (Stratechery)
• The Metaverse Is Mark Zuckerberg’s Escape Hatch (NYTimes)
• APPLE MACBOOK PRO 14 AND 16 REVIEW: RETURN TO FORM (The Verge)

Thursday, October 28 2021 - Thu. 10/28 – Facebook’s New Name Is Meta

• Facebook unveils Horizon Home social VR, Messenger VR calls, and fitness VR on road to metaverse (VentureBeat)
• Slack is coming to the Oculus Quest (TechCrunch)
• Facebook says it doesn’t want to own the metaverse, just jumpstart it (Engadget)
• Facebook tells employees to preserve all communications for legal reasons. (NYTimes)
• Nearly a third of new code on GitHub is written with AI help (Axios)
• The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is ideal for DIY projects (Wired)
• Apple Reveals ‘Scale to Fit’ Setting to Prevent a Mac App’s Menu Bar Items From Being Hidden Under Notch (MacRumors)

Wednesday, October 27 2021 - Wed. 10/27 – Is Robinhood The Company Doge Made?

• Microsoft beats revenue expectations, reporting 22% growth (CNBC)
• Robinhood shares tank as revenue falls way short of expectations on lighter crypto trading (CNBC)
• FCC kicks China Telecom Americas out of US, cites Chinese government control (Ars Technica)
• Federal Trade Commission Scrutinizing Facebook Disclosures (WSJ)
• Amazon launches AWS instances powered by Habana’s AI accelerator chip (VentureBeat)
• Biden appoints Jessica Rosenworcel to lead the FCC (The Verge)
• The ‘Dune’ Screenplay Was Written in MS-DOS (Vice)

Tuesday, October 26 2021 - Tue. 10/26 – Facebook Pivots To Youth

• Facebook delivers light Q4 revenue guidance, mixed Q3 results (ZDNet)
• Facebook says it’s refocusing company on ‘serving young adults’ (The Verge)
• Photoshop will get a ‘prepare as NFT’ option soon (The Verge)
• Amazon is building a Clubhouse competitor that turns hosts into DJs (The Verge)
• Amazon joins race for quantum computer with new Caltech center (The Washington Post)
• Amazon’s broadband satellite venture Kuiper teams up with Verizon to expand 5G coverage (The Verge)
• Blue Origin reveals plans for future commercial space station called Orbital Reef (The Verge)
• Apple’s M1 Pro, M1 Max SoC’s Investigated: New Performance and Efficiency Heights (AnandTech)
• Pixel 6 Pro Review: The flagship Google needs right now is the one buyers deserve (9to5Google)

Monday, October 25 2021 - Mon. 10/25 – Everybody Dumps (Reports) On Facebook

• Here are all the Facebook Papers stories (Protocol)
• The case against Mark Zuckerberg: Insiders say Facebook’s CEO chose growth over safety (Washington Post)
• Tesla pulled its latest ‘Full Self Driving’ beta after testers complained about false crash warnings and other bugs (The Verge)
• Hertz orders 100,000 Teslas in deal reportedly worth $4.2 billion (The Verge)
• Microsoft: Russian SVR hacked at least 14 IT supply chain firms since May (BleepingComputer)
• Privacy by Design (WorldCoin)
• How the Launch Works (Worldcoin)

Saturday, October 23 2021 - (TWTR SPC) Metaverse? Name Change? Facebook Wither?

• VPLS.com/goit

Friday, October 22 2021 - Fri. 10/22 – Is Apple’s ATT Bite As Bad As People Feared After All?

• Snap plummets 22% after missing on revenue expectations (CNBC)
• Google lowers Play Store fees for subscriptions and music streaming apps (The Verge)
• Amazon launches in-store pickup option for items from local businesses (CNBC)
• Governments turn tables on ransomware gang REvil by pushing it offline (Reuters)
• Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sam Altman wants to scan your eyes in exchange for free cryptocurrency (CNBC)

Thursday, October 21 2021 - Thu. 10/21 – PayPal To Buy Pinterest? Why?

• PayPal Is Exploring a Purchase of Pinterest (Bloomberg)
• Plaid Pushes Into Payments Business After Scuttled Visa Deal (WSJ)
• Microsoft now lets you test Android apps on Windows 11 (The Verge)
• A first look at Microsoft’s new Windows 11 Android apps support (The Verge)
• Nvidia Supercharges GeForce Now Cloud Gaming Service With RTX 3080 GPUs (Gizmodo)
• Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX Crypto Exchange Adds $7 Billion of Value in Three Months (Bloomberg)
• Fanatics’ NFT company is worth $1.5 billion, and NFL legend Peyton Manning now owns a stake (CNBC)
• Meet the New Owners of the Wu-Tang Clan’s One-of-a-Kind Album (NYTimes)
• MICROSOFT SURFACE DUO 2 REVIEW: DUO-OVER OR STRIKE TWO? (The Verge)

Wednesday, October 20 2021 - Wed. 10/20 – Facebook To Change Its Name?

• Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name (The Verge)
• Galaxy Watch 4 gets its first major update w/ Fall Detection, new watchfaces, more (9to5Google)
• First Bitcoin Futures ETF Rises in Trading Debut (WSJ)
• Facebook Fined $69 Million by U.K. Authority for Breaching Order During Giphy Merger Investigation (Variety)
• Brave Removes Google as its Default Search Engine (Thurrott.com)
• Spotify Adds Virtual Merch Tables for Music Artists in Pact With Shopify (Variety)
• Comcast Launches XClass TV, Its First TV Sets in the U.S., Taking Streaming Platform Direct-to-Consumer (Variety)

Tuesday, October 19 2021 - Tue. 10/19 – The Google Pixel Event And The Pixel 6

• Android 12 is now rolling out to Pixel phones (Engadget)
• GOOGLE PIXEL 6 AND 6 PRO HAVE BIG SCREENS, BIG AMBITIONS, AND SMALL PRICES (The Verge)
• The “Google Silicon” team gives us a tour of the Pixel 6’s Tensor SoC (Ars Technica)
• Pixel Pass bundles a phone with Google services for $45 per month (Engadget)
• Facebook’s Novi Taps Paxos, Coinbase Ahead of Diem Rollout (CoinDesk)
• Delivery Hero Leads $1 Billion Funding Round for Gorillas (Bloomberg)
• Apple Selling New $49 Braided MagSafe Cable and $99 140W Power Adapter for 16-Inch MacBook Pro (MacRumors)
• Tweet I mentioned comparing the M1Max to the PS5 (@ZONEofTech)
• YouTube Has Surpassed $3 Billion in Consumer Spend on iOS — Giving The World Access to Tailored Quality Content (App Annie)

Monday, October 18 2021 - Mon. 10/18 – Apple’s MacBook Event

• Apple unveils next-generation M1 Pro and M1 Max chips for new Macs (9to5Mac)
• Apple announces 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro: new design, display notch, 120Hz, M1 Pro chip, HDMI, MagSafe, more (9to5Mac)
• Bitcoin Comes to the Big Board (NYTimes)
• Apple’s privacy changes create windfall for its own advertising business (FT)
• Valve bans blockchain games and NFTs on Steam, Epic will try to make it work (The Verge)
• Netflix Estimates ‘Squid Game’ Will Be Worth Almost $900 Million (Bloomberg)

Saturday, October 16 2021 - (TWTR SPC) What IS The Metaverse?

• Betterhelp.com/ridehome

Friday, October 15 2021 - Fri. 10/15 – Will The SEC Allow You To Trade The (Bitcoin) Future?

• SEC Set to Allow Bitcoin Futures ETFs as Deadline Looms (Bloomberg)
• Google modernizes US mobile search results with continuous scrolling (TechCrunch)
• Dead-End SF Street Plagued With Confused Waymo Cars Trying To Turn Around ‘Every 5 Minutes’ (KPIX CBS)
• Reliable Robotics lifts $100M to take autonomous cargo planes where none have gone before (TechCrunch)

Thursday, October 14 2021 - Thu. 10/14 – LinkedIn Shuts Down In China

• Microsoft Folds LinkedIn Social-Media Service in China (WSJ)
• Effort to Bar Tech Companies From ‘Self-Preferencing’ Gains Traction (WSJ)
• Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, and remember everything you do (The Verge)
• Canadian Instacart workers to walk off job in bid to secure better working conditions (Toronto Star)
• TCL’S BUDGET 20S AND 20SE PHONES DEFY EXPECTATIONS (The Verge)
• Call of Duty’s new anti-cheat system includes a kernel-level driver to catch PC cheaters (The Verge)
• Joe Montana prepares for biggest windfall as a venture capitalist ahead of GitLab’s $10 billion IPO (CNBC)

Wednesday, October 13 2021 - Wed. 10/13 – Supply Chain Woes Come For The iPhone

• Apple Set to Cut iPhone Production Goals Due to Chip Crunch (Bloomberg)
• Apple Studying Potential of AirPods as Health Device (WSJ)
• Sony to join TSMC on new $7bn chip plant in Japan (Nikkei Asia)
• G4 TV returns November 16th with Attack of the Show, Xplay and more (The Verge)
• Coinbase Follows FTX.US Into NFT Trading (CoinDesk)
• Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitcoin Support (CoinDesk)
• Acer’s new ConceptD 7 SpatialLabs Edition laptop uses eye-tracking cameras for a glasses-free 3D display (The Verge)
• APPLE WATCH SERIES 7 REVIEW: TIME AND TIME AGAIN (The Verge)
• Samsung announces Unpacked 2 event for Wednesday Oct 20th, right after Apple and Google (The Verge)

Tuesday, October 12 2021 - Tue 10/12 – Twitter Lets Your Do Your Own Shadow Banning

• Twitter’s tool for removing unwanted followers arrives for web users (Engadget)
• Facebook whistleblower to brief Facebook Oversight Board, U.K. parliament (Axios)
• A second Facebook whistleblower says she’s willing to testify before Congress and that she’s shared documents with a US law agency (Insider)
• Seven years after raising $542M at a $2B valuation, Magic Leap raises $500M at a $2B valuation (TechCrunch)
• Canva is getting into video (TechCrunch)
• 1Password’s new feature lets you safely share passwords using just a link (Engadget)
• Microsoft said it mitigated a 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack, the largest ever (The Record)
• Microsoft and Nvidia team up to train one of the world’s largest language models (VentureBeat)
• US has already lost AI fight to China, says ex-Pentagon software chief (FT)

Monday, October 11 2021 - Mon. 10/11 – Pixels To Go Big On Cameras?

• Google says Pixel 6 camera captures ‘150% more light,’ shows ‘Magic Eraser’ on leaked marketing site (9to5Google)
• Twitch Streamer Earnings Increase for Top Gamers, Data From Hack Shows (WSJ)
• EV Sales At BYD, XPeng Soar In Sept., Underscoring Strong China Demand (Forbes)
• China’s booming electric car industry is much bigger than just Nio and Xpeng (CNBC)
• Emerson Plans to Merge Industrial-Software Businesses With AspenTech (WSJ)
• Disney’s shift to streaming puts ESPN in awkward position of clinging to the past (CNBC)
• Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’ T-Shirts Are Coming to a Walmart Near You (Bloomberg)

Friday, October 08 2021 - Fri. 10/08 – Tesla Goes Texas; Apple Goes Hollywood

• Tesla to Move Headquarters From California to Texas, Elon Musk Says (WSJ)
• Apple Is Building a Massive New Campus Straddling L.A. and Culver City (Variety)
• YouTube To Stop Making Year-End ‘Rewind’ Videos (Exclusive) (TubeFilter)
• Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less (Slate)

Thursday, October 07 2021 - Thu. 10/07 – Forget The iCar, Apple Wants To Take Over Your EXISTING Car

• Apple’s Plan for Cars: Using iPhone to Control A/C, Seats, Radio and More (Bloomberg)
• Paddle Plans to Launch Alternative In-App Purchase System on iOS That Circumvents Apple’s Fees (MacRumors)
• AMD: Windows 11 Slows Our CPUs Up To 15%, Patch Coming (Tom’s Hardware)
• Facebook Slows New Products for ‘Reputational Reviews’ (WSJ)
• GM reveals Ultra Cruise ‘hands-free’ system that covers ‘95 percent’ of driving scenarios (The Verge)
• ‘Fantasy equity’ NFT game wants you to spend real money buying fake shares of real startups (TechCrunch)
• ‘Fantasy startup investing’ NFT platform Visionrare shuts down paid marketplace after a day in open beta (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, October 06 2021 - Wed. 10/06 – ALL Of Twitch Leaked?

• The entirety of Twitch has reportedly been leaked (VideoGamesChronicle)
• Telegram says it added 70M users during day of Facebook and WhatsApp outage (TechCrunch)
• Snapchat Adding New Creator Monetization Programs, Including Spotlight Challenges (Variety)
• Apple rolling out new Find My features for AirPods Pro and AirPods Max (9to5Mac)
• EXCLUSIVE Apple to face EU antitrust charge over NFC chip - sources (Reuters)
• SEC Chair Gensler: A Ban on Crypto Would Be ‘Up to Congress’ (CoinDesk)
• Investors Spent Millions on ‘Evolved Apes’ NFTs. Then They Got Scammed. (Motherboard)

Tuesday, October 05 2021 - Tue. 10/05 – The Great Facebook Outage

• Gone in Minutes, Out for Hours: Outage Shakes Facebook (NYTimes)
• Google’s AI unit DeepMind makes first-ever profit (FT)
• ANDROID 12 REVIEW: IT’S MOSTLY ABOUT THE LOOKS (The Verge)
• WINDOWS 11 REVIEW: A FAMILIAR HOME THAT’S STILL BEING RENOVATED (The Verge)
• Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Studio Does It All (Gizmodo)

Monday, October 04 2021 - Mon. 10/04 – Facebook Whistleblower On 60 Minutes

• The Facebook Whistleblower, Frances Haugen, Says She Wants to Fix the Company, Not Harm It (WSJ)
• Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew (NYTimes)
• Apple Watch Series 7 Pre-Orders to Start This Friday, Available on October 15 (MacRumors)
• Gurman: M1X MacBook Pro still on track for this year, likely ‘in the next month’ (9to5Mac)
• Apple Doesn’t Make Videogames. But It’s the Hottest Player in Gaming. (WSJ)
• Amazon Prime members can now send gifts with just a phone number or email address (The Verge)
• YouTube․com adds ‘Continue watching’ to resume unfinished videos on your phone (9to5Google)

Friday, October 01 2021 - Fri. 10/01 – TikTok And NFTs, Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together

• TikTok announces NFT collection led by top creators (The Block)
• USB-C group hopes new logos will solve customer confusion (Apple Insider)
• Zoom and Five9 abandon $14.7 billion acquisition (CNBC)
• DeFi bug accidentally gives $90 million to users, founder begs them to return it (CNBC)

Thursday, September 30 2021 - Thu. 09/30 – Facebook: Who You Gonna Trust? Us? Or Your Lying Eyes?

• TinyCaptial.com
• Modern Finance Podcast (Apple Podcasts)

Wednesday, September 29 2021 - Wed. 09/29 – Is Amazon’s Astro Robot… Ready?

• Leaked Documents Show How Amazon’s Astro Robot Tracks Everything You Do (Motherboard)
• Netflix acquires its first game studio in deal with Oxenfree creator Night School Studio (VentureBeat)
• Imgur has been bought by the owner of Kik, Genius, and WorldStarHipHop (The Verge)
• Microsoft opens its Windows store up to third-party app stores (The Verge)
• Facebook’s Effort to Attract Preteens Goes Beyond Instagram Kids, Documents Show (WSJ)
• AngelList returns to its founder-focused roots, with a twist (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, September 28 2021 - Tue. 09/28 – The Amazon Hardware Event

• Amazon introduces Amazon Glow, an interactive, video calling device for kids and families (TechCrunch)
• SAY HELLO TO ASTRO, ALEXA ON WHEELS (The Verge)
• Astro Intro YouTube Video (YouTube)
• Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince: ‘We’re aiming to be the fourth major public cloud
• Facebook will publish some of its research on teens and Instagram (Engadget)
• Coinbase dives deeper into banking by letting users deposit paychecks into their accounts (CNBC)
• 1Password can now randomly generate email addresses for logins (Engadget)
• Trump pushing Microsoft to buy TikTok was ‘strangest thing I’ve ever worked on,’ says Satya Nadella (The Verge)

Monday, September 27 2021 - Mon. 09/27 – Instagram Kids On “Pause”

• Pausing “Instagram Kids” and Building Parental Supervision Tools (Instagram Blog)
• Facebook is ‘pausing’ work on Instagram kids app after widespread criticism (The Verge)
• Facebook Rebuts Report Calling Instagram ‘Toxic’ for Teen Girls (Bloomberg)
• Tesla owners can now request ‘Full Self-Driving’, prompting criticism from regulators and safety advocates (Washington Post)
• Apple to Fix Issue Preventing iPhone 13 Users From Unlocking With Apple Watch in Upcoming Software Update (MacRumors)
• Some Apple, Tesla suppliers suspend production in China amid power pinch (Reuters)
• Google is slashing the amount it keeps from sales on its cloud marketplace as pressure mounts on app stores (CNBC)
• Cloudflare Is Taking a Shot at Email Security (Wired)

Friday, September 24 2021 - Fri. 09/24 – China: No, Really. No Crypto.

• China’s central bank says all cryptocurrency-related activities are illegal, vows harsh crackdown (CNBC)
• Google Brings More Pixel-Exclusive Features to All Android Phones (Gizmodo)
• Amazon Working on Large Wall Echo, Sound Bar and New Auto Device (Bloomberg)
• New York City Council Passes Sweeping Food Delivery Protections (Bloomberg)

Thursday, September 23 2021 - Thu. 09/23 – USB-C For Everybody! (Maybe By Law…)

• One to charge them all: EU demands single plug for phones (AP)
• Facebook Chief Technology Officer Schroepfer to Step Down (Bloomberg)
• Tim Cook says employees who leak memos do not belong at Apple, according to leaked memo (The Verge)
• Apple won’t let Fortnite back on iOS until the Epic v. Apple verdict is final (The Verge)
• iPhone 13 and Apple Silicon (CreativeStrategies.com)
• YouTube gets official video downloads on the web, saving you from using some very sketchy sites (Android Police)
• Softorino YouTube Converter
• Chinese augmented reality glasses maker Nreal valued at $700 million after fresh funding (CNBC)

Wednesday, September 22 2021 - Wed. 09/22 – The Microsoft Surface Event

• Microsoft announces Surface Pro 8 with bigger 13-inch 120Hz display and Thunderbolt (The Verge)
• The Surface Go 3 gets new Intel processors (The Verge)
• Microsoft’s new Surface Duo 2 has all the features that were missing the first time around (The Verge)
• Surface Laptop Studio is Microsoft’s new powerful flagship laptop (The Verge)
• Robinhood to launch cryptocurrency wallets as bitcoin becomes a bigger part of business (CNBC)
• Microsoft uncovers giant Phishing-as-a-Service operation (The Record)
• No More Apologies: Inside Facebook’s Push to Defend Its Image (NYTimes)
• The Oversight Board wants Facebook to explain its controversial rules for VIPs (Engadget)
• Facebook paid billions extra to the FTC to spare Zuckerberg in data suit, shareholders allege (Politico)

Tuesday, September 21 2021 - Tue. 09/21 – iPhone Reviews, Kindle Drops And HP Laptops

• HP revamps consumer PC lineup with 16-inch Spectre x360, 34-inch Envy all-in-one PC (ZDNet)
• PayPal launches its ‘super app’ combining payments, savings, bill pay, crypto, shopping and more (TechCrunch)
• Fantasy soccer NFT platform Sorare scores $680 million raise led by SoftBank (The Block)
• Coinbase Drops Crypto Lending Program Plans After SEC Balks (Bloomberg Wealth)
• Amazon unveils three new Kindles with bigger screens, longer battery life (CNBC)
• Google to Buy New York City Office Building for $2.1 Billion (WSJ)
• Apple Is Working on iPhone Features to Help Detect Depression, Cognitive Decline (WSJ)
• IPHONE 13 REVIEW: YEP, BIGGER BATTERIES ARE BETTER (The Verge)
• IPHONE 13 PRO REVIEW: A BETTER DISPLAY, THE BEST CAMERA, AND INCREDIBLE BATTERY LIFE (The Verge)

Monday, September 20 2021 - Mon 09/20 – New Kindles, Roku Sticks and Surface Pros!

• Roku debuts new Streaming Stick 4K bundles, software update with voice and mobile features (TechCrunch)
• Amazon is going to release Kindle Paperwhite 5 Signature Edition Soon (GoodEReader)
• Surface Pro 8 leaks with 120Hz display and Thunderbolt support (The Verge)
• Galaxy Fold-style Pixel foldable, ‘Jumbojack,’ spotted in Android 12.1 (9to5Google)
• Elon Musk’s Push to Expand Tesla’s Driver Assistance to Cities Rankles a Top Safety Authority (WSJ)
• The App Store is the Games Store. Apple should recognize this. (Mobile Dev Memo)
• Netflix and Apple TV+ clean up at the Emmys with ‘The Crown’ and ‘Ted Lasso’ (Engadget)

Friday, September 17 2021 - Fri. 09/17 – Facebook’s Week Of Wall Street Journal Woes

• Facebook Employees Flag Drug Cartels and Human Traffickers. The Company’s Response Is Weak, Documents Show. (WSJ)
• How Facebook Hobbled Mark Zuckerberg’s Bid to Get America Vaccinated (WSJ)
• The Algorithm Tweaks Won’t Save Us (Galaxy Brain)
• Google and Apple Remove App Aimed at Spurring Protest Voting in Russia (NYTimes)

Thursday, September 16 2021 - Thu. 09/16 – Ok, The iPhone Chips ARE (Slightly) Faster

• The iPhone 13 is a pitch-perfect iPhone 12S (The Verge)
• Walmart+ is gaining momentum, hits 32 million members, Deutsche Bank estimates (CNBC)
• The Lucid Air is the first electric car with a 520-mile EPA-rated range (The Verge)
• No Chinese Stock Left Among Global Top 10 as Tencent Slides (Bloomberg)
• Chat App Discord Is Worth $15 Billion After New Funding (Bloomberg)
• Former Startup Darling Genius Sells to Media Lab for $80 Million (Bloomberg)
• LG now makes a 2,000 pound TV that costs $1.7 million (The Verge)

Wednesday, September 15 2021 - Wed. 09/15 – Charging A Smartphone In 17 Minutes?

• Xiaomi announces 11T Pro with 120W fast charging (The Verge)
• Apple releasing iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 on September 20 (9to5Mac)
• iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro feature dual eSIM support for the first time (9to5Mac)
• Apple CPU Gains Grind To A Halt And The Future Looks Dim As The Impact From The CPU Engineer Exodus To Nuvia And Rivos Starts To Bleed In (SemiAnalysis.substack.com)
• Solana Has Been Down for Hours Due to ‘Resource Exhaustion’ (Decrypt)
• SEC charges App Annie with securities fraud in $10 million settlement (Protocol)
• Canva Raises At $40 Billion Valuation — Its Founders Are Pledging Away Most Of Their Wealth (Forbes)
• Microsoft accounts can now go fully passwordless (The Verge)

Tuesday, September 14 2021 - Tue. 09/14 – The iPhone 13 Event

• Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show (WSJ)
• Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt. (WSJ)
• Apple patches an NSO zero-day flaw affecting all devices (TechCrunch)

Monday, September 13 2021 - Mon. 09/13 – Is China Dismantling Its Super Apps?

• Beijing to break up Ant’s Alipay and force creation of separate loans app (FT)
• Tencent and Alibaba pledge to open up apps to competitors (FT)
• Commercetools raises $140M at a $1.9B valuation as ‘headless’ commerce continues to boom (TechCrunch)
• iPhone 13 Pro will get 1TB option & new ‘AirPods 3’ will not replace AirPods (AppleInsider)
• Apple must allow other forms of in-app purchase, rules judge in Epic v. Apple (The Verge)
• Apple Risks Losing Billions of Dollars Annually From Epic Games Ruling (Bloomberg)
• The future of the App Store depends on the difference between a ‘button’ and an ‘external link’ (The Verge)
• Apple Won a Battle to Lose the War (500ish.com)

Saturday, September 11 2021 - (TWTR SPC) An Interview With @kayvz, Who Is Leading The Twitter Product Revolution

• Otter.ai

Friday, September 10 2021 - Fri. 09/10 – Even Under App Store Pressure, Apple Still Unwilling To Play Ball With Epic

• Apple won’t let Epic bring Fortnite back to South Korea’s App Store (The Verge)
• Apple Music is using Shazam to solve the streaming industry’s problem with DJ mixes (TechCrunch)
• Grubhub, DoorDash, Uber Eats Sue New York City Over Fee Caps (WSJ)

Thursday, September 09 2021 - Thu. 09/09 – Facebook Glasses And Amazon Fire TVs

• FACEBOOK ON YOUR FACE (The Verge)
• Amazon Unveils First of Its Own Smart TVs, Will Bring TikTok to Fire TV in U.S. and Canada (Variety)
• Amazon’s new Fire TV Stick 4K Max adds Wi-Fi 6 and faster performance (The Verge)
• Spain’s Football League Seals Digital Player Card Deal With Sorare (Bloomberg)
• Twitter wants you to tweet to interest-based communities, not just followers (TechCrunch)
• BNPL platform Scalapay raises $155 million in Tiger Global led round (Tech.eu)

Wednesday, September 08 2021 - Wed. 09/08 – Coinbase Tussles With The SEC?

• Brian Armstrong responds to SEC threats to shut down Coinbase yield product (The Block)
• El Salvador Buys Its First 200 BTC a Day Before Its Bitcoin Law Becomes Effective (Coindesk)
• Ford poaches top tech executive Doug Field who helped lead Apple’s top-secret car project (CNBC)
• Apple Event Announced: ‘California Streaming’ on September 14 With iPhone 13, Apple Watch Series 7 Expected (Macrumors)
• Microsoft acquires video-editing software start-up Clipchamp (CNBC)
• PayPal Closes $2.7B Acquisition Deal For Japan’s Paidy (Pymnts.com)
• Amazon brings its cashierless tech to two Whole Foods stores (CNBC)
• Lenovo’s new Windows 11 laptops could reinvent the IdeaPad brand — and take on the MacBook (Laptopmag.com)

Tuesday, September 07 2021 - Tue. 09/07 – How Private IS ProtonMail?

• ProtonMail logged IP address of French activist after order by Swiss authorities (TechCrunch)
• How Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2 Billion WhatsApp Users (ProPublica)
• Billions of devices impacted by new BrakTooth Bluetooth vulnerabilities (The Record)
• TikTok reportedly overtakes YouTube in US average watch time (The Verge)
• SMARTWATCHES TRACK OUR HEALTH. SMART TOILETS AREN’T TOO FAR BEHIND. (WSJ)
• Ethereum Rival Solana Climbs to Seventh in Crypto Top 10 (Bloomberg)

Friday, September 03 2021 - Fri. 09/03 – An Alexa TV Coming Next Month?

• EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is close to launching its own TV in the US (Insider)
• Apple’s AR/VR Headset Will Need Connection to Other Device Such as iPhone (The Information)
• Exclusive: Reddit seeks to hire advisers for U.S. IPO -sources (Reuters)
• Apple delays rollout of CSAM detection system and child safety features (9to5Mac)
• Record Doge NFT Sale Highlights Growing Demand for Fractionalization (CoinDesk)

Thursday, September 02 2021 - Thu. 09/02 – Now Apple Will Let Apps Acknowledge The Web Exists

• Apple will allow some media apps to link outside the App Store for payments (Engadget)
• Apple concedes to let apps like Netflix, Spotify, and Kindle link to the web to sign up (The Verge)
• Facebook’s WhatsApp Fined Around $270 Million for EU Privacy Violations (WSJ)
• U.S. DOJ Readying Google Antitrust Lawsuit Over Ad-Tech Business (Bloomberg)
• US asks Tesla how Autopilot responds to emergency vehicles (AP)
• Twitter launches Super Follows on iOS (The Verge)
• Twitter is testing a new anti-abuse feature called ‘Safety Mode’ (TechCrunch)
• Twitter Plans New Privacy Tools to Get More People Tweeting (Bloomberg)
• YouTube music services hit 50m subscribers in race to catch Spotify (FT)

Wednesday, September 01 2021 - Wed. 09/01 – Apple Watch… Out?

• New Apple Watch With Larger Screen Suffers Production Snags (Bloomberg)
• Apple Plans Blood-Pressure Measure, Wrist Thermometer in Watch (WSJ)
• Apple secures first states to support digital driver’s licenses, but privacy questions linger (TechCrunch)
• Apple just banned a pay equity Slack channel but lets fun dogs channel lie (The Verge)
• LinkedIn gives up on Stories (The Verge)
• Facebook enters the fantasy gaming market (TechCrunch)
• New York Times’ Wirecutter Product-Review Site Moves Behind Paywall (WSJ)
• Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops (Nikkei Asia)
• Microsoft announces Surface event for September 22nd (The Verge)

Tuesday, August 31 2021 - Tue. 08/31 – Windows 11 Will Launch Without Android Apps

• Windows 11 won’t include Android app support at launch (The Verge)
• Apple buys classical music streaming service Primephonic (The Verge)
• Scoop: Amazon quietly building live audio business (Axios)
• Scoop: Facebook’s new moves to lower News Feed’s political volume (Axios)
• Google, Apple Hit by First Law Threatening Dominance Over App-Store Payments (WSJ)
• Apple Plans to Add Satellite Features to iPhones for Emergencies (Bloomberg)
• White House launches US Digital Corps (FedScoop)

Monday, August 30 2021 - Mon. 08/30 – iPhones With Satellite Internet?

• Kuo: iPhone 13 to Feature LEO Satellite Communications to Make Calls and Texts Without Cellular Coverage (MacRumors)
• Tim Cook’s Run as Apple CEO Could End as Early as 2025. Who Will Replace Him? (Bloomberg)
• China Slashes Kids’ Gaming Time to Just Three Hours a Week (Bloomberg)
• Apple, Google Mobile Dominance Faces Tough Test in South Korea (Bloomberg)
• Google allegedly offered Netflix a break on the usual Play Store commission (The Verge)
• TikTok owner ByteDance takes first step into virtual reality with latest acquisition (CNBC)
• CryptoPunks blasts past $1 billion in lifetime sales as NFT speculation surges (TechCrunch)

Friday, August 27 2021 - Fri. 08/27 – Another Crack In The App Store

• Apple will let developers email users about payments outside iOS (Protocol)
• Apple’s $100 million settlement agreement changes a key App Store rule for developers (The Verge)
• Twitter starts launching Ticketed Spaces for some iOS users (The Verge)
• Waymo will stop selling its self-driving LiDAR sensors to other companies (TechCrunch)
• Paradigm and Founders Fund lead $16 million investment in 3LAU’s NFT music platform Royal (The Block)

Thursday, August 26 2021 - Thu. 08/26 – The Big Cybersecurity Summit

• Biden tells top CEOs at White House summit to step up on cybersecurity (Washington Post)
• World’s Largest Chip Maker to Raise Prices, Threatening Costlier Electronics (WSJ)
• Silicon Valley Exchange Lists First Two Companies in ESG Push (Bloomberg)
• Canalys: US PC sales up 17% YoY for quarter, even as tablet sales stagnate (TechCrunch)
• Wing approaches 100,000 drone deliveries two years after Logan, Australia launch (TechCrunch)
• Stealthy battery company backed by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos has a lot to prove (CNBC)

Wednesday, August 25 2021 - Wed. 08/25 – JK, JK, JK! OnlyFans Reverses Course On Porn Ban

• OnlyFans no longer plans to ban porn, saying in abrupt U-turn that it wants to be a ‘home for all creators’ (Insider)
• FITBIT’S NEW CHARGE 5 HAS A ROUNDED DESIGN AND A COLOR SCREEN (The Verge)
• Messenger celebrates its 10th anniversary with new features and a plan to become the ‘connective tissue’ for real-time experiences (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft to launch cloud gaming service on Xbox consoles (CNBC)
• Fastest Mobile Networks 2021 (PCMag)
• A New Chip Cluster Will Make Massive AI Models Possible (Wired)

Tuesday, August 24 2021 - Tue. 08/24 – Cybersecurity Meetup At The White House

• Apple’s Tim Cook, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Plan to Visit White House (Bloomberg)
• Instagram is retiring the swipe up (The Verge)
• Facebook Retools Messaging Again by Adding Calling to Main App (Bloomberg)
• Airbnb says it will host 20,000 Afghan refugees (CNN Business)
• SpaceX ships 100,000 Starlink terminals to customers, eyes future launches using Starship (TechCrunch)
• Poly Network says it has recovered all $610 million it lost in cryptocurrency heist (Engadget)
• SAMSUNG GALAXY Z FOLD 3 REVIEW: NEARLY NORMAL (The Verge)
• SAMSUNG’S GALAXY Z FLIP 3 IS THE FIRST FOLDING PHONE FOR NORMAL PEOPLE (The Verge)

Monday, August 23 2021 - Mon. 08/23 – M1X Mac Mini Incoming…

• High-End ‘M1X’ Mac Mini With New Design and Additional Ports Expected to Launch in the ‘Next Several Months’ (MacRumors)
• The world’s second-largest stablecoin is undergoing a massive change (CNBC)
• Visa buys a CryptoPunk as it takes first steps into ‘NFT commerce’ (The Block)
• Razer bug lets you become a Windows 10 admin by plugging in a mouse (BleepingComputer)
• Facebook’s Stealth M&A Puts Focus on Deals Under Antitrust Radar (Bloomberg)
• Facebook says post that cast doubt on covid-19 vaccine was most popular on the platform from January through March (The Washington Post)
• Post-Culture Review Twitter Thread (Twitter)

Friday, August 20 2021 - Fri. 08/20 – OnlyFans Pulls A Tumblr

• OnlyFans has tons of users, but can’t find investors (Axios)
• OnlyFans to Bar Sexually Explicit Videos Starting in October (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft will raise Office 365 business subscription prices in 2022 (CNBC)
• Elon Musk says Tesla is working on humanoid robots (The Verge)
• Elon Musk Unveils His Funniest Vaporware Yet (Gizmodo)

Thursday, August 19 2021 - Thu. 08/19 – FTC Files Its Facebook Mulligan

• Amazon Plans to Open Large Retail Locations Akin to Department Stores (WSJ)
• GE Appliances announces partnership with major cloud company to focus on data capabilities (Courier Journal)
• Intel previews its Alder Lake chip, promises hybrid CPUs for desktops and laptops (The Verge)
• FTC files renewed antitrust complaint against Facebook (CNBC)
• INSIDE FACEBOOK’S METAVERSE FOR WORK (The Verge)
• Facebook is sharing data to prove it’s not a political hellhole (Protocol)
• Robinhood says dogecoin accounted for 62% of crypto revenue in Q2 (CNBC)
• Venture Investment In Cryptosecurity Jumps 10x Over Last Year As Sector Hits Sweet Spot With Venture Capitalists (Crunchbase News)

Tuesday, August 17 2021 - Tue. 08/17 – Yik Yak Is Back. Act Accordingly.

• Remember Yik Yak? Well, it’s back and still anonymous. (Mashable)
• T-Mobile Confirms It Was Hacked (Motherboard)
• WhatsApp Can’t Ban the Taliban Because It Can’t Read Their Texts (Motherboard)
• Facebook ‘Proactively’ Removing Taliban Content, Executive Says (Bloomberg)
• OnlyFans Creates Its First App With a Twist: No Nudity, No Cost (Bloomberg)
• And the First Streaming Service to Partner With TikTok Is… (Rolling Stone)
• Tinder will make its ID Verification option available to all users (The Verge)
• Salesforce introduces new Slack integrations post-acquisition (Venture Beat)
• Twitter taps crypto developer to lead decentralized social media initiative Bluesky (The Block)

Monday, August 16 2021 - Mon. 08/16 – NHTSA Investigating Tesla’s Autopilot

• T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Customer Data Breach (Motherboard)
• US probing Autopilot problems on 765,000 Tesla vehicles (Associated Press)
• Huawei Accused in Suit of Installing Data ‘Back Door’ in Pakistan Project (WSJ)
• Facebook, Amazon seek U.S. approval to operate undersea data cable (Reuters)
• This Solar Hydropanel Can Pull 10 Liters of Drinking Water Per Day Out of the Air (Brighter)
• Twitter’s web redesign isn’t as accessible as it should be, experts say (TechCrunch)

Friday, August 13 2021 - Fri. 08/13 – The Growing Power Of Stablecoins

• Disney+ beats expectations to reach 116 million subscribers in Q3 (TechCrunch)
• Nvidia Reveals Its CEO Was Computer Generated in Keynote Speech (Motherboard)
• How Circle could create a U.S.-backed digital currency (Axios)
• Crypto platform Poly Network rewards hacker with $500,000 ‘bug bounty’ (Reuters)

Thursday, August 12 2021 - Thu. 08/12 – Legislation To Break Open App Stores

• App Store Competition Targeted by Bipartisan Senate Bill (WSJ)
• DoorDash Recently Held Talks to Buy Instacart (The Information)
• TikTok to add more privacy protections for teenaged users, limit push notifications (TechCrunch)
• WhatsApp will let you transfer your chat history between Android and iOS (Engadget)
• Researchers Create ‘Master Faces’ to Bypass Facial Recognition (Motherboard)
• Messi joins crypto craze as gets part of PSG fee in fan tokens (Reuters)
• Pirated-Entertainment Sites Are Making Billions From Ads (Bloomberg)

Wednesday, August 11 2021 - Wed. 08/11 – Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked Event

• Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 delivers S Pen, better screen durability, IPX8 for $1,799 (9to5Google)
• Samsung breaks the triple-digit barrier w/ Galaxy Z Flip 3 priced at $999 (9to5Google)
• THE GALAXY WATCH 4 INJECTS SAMSUNG’S CAPABLE HARDWARE WITH GOOGLE SOFTWARE (The Verge)
• At least $611 million stolen in massive cross-chain hack (The Block)
• Poly Network attacker returns $256 million of the stolen cryptocurrency (The Block)
• NSA Awards Secret $10 Billion Contract to Amazon (Nextgov)
• OpenAI launches Codex, an API for translating natural language into code (The Machine)
• Google restricts ad targeting of minors and will delist photos of kids at their request (The Verge)

Tuesday, August 10 2021 - Tue. 08/10 – iPhone To Get An Apple Watch-Like Always-On Screen?

• Apple Readies New iPhones With Pro-Focused Camera, Video Updates (Bloomberg)
• APPLE KEEPS SHUTTING DOWN EMPLOYEE-RUN SURVEYS ON PAY EQUITY — AND LABOR LAWYERS SAY IT’S ILLEGAL (The Verge)
• Bitcoin Lobby Loses: Senate Rejects Revised Crypto Tax Provisions in Infrastructure Bill (Decrypt)
• Google’s new Titan security key lineup won’t make you choose between USB-C and NFC (The Verge)
• Crypto Platform FalconX Quintuples Valuation to $3.75 Billion (Bloomberg)
• Square’s $29 billion deal for buy-now, pay-later player Afterpay is the starting gun for the race to build a money super app (Insider)
• Exclusive: Salesforce enters the streaming wars (Axios)

Monday, August 09 2021 - Mon. 08/09 – Congressional Crypto Crunch

• Senators Near Deal On Crypto Oversight, But May Be Too Late (Bloomberg)
• Apple CSAM FAQ addresses misconceptions and concerns about photo scanning (9to5Mac)
• Apple’s New ‘Child Safety’ Initiatives, and the Slippery Slope (Daring Fireball)
• An Unsurprising But Sad Update for Tesla Cybertruck Fans: Production Has Been Pushed to 2022 (Gizmodo)
• Google is planning a new Silicon Valley campus with hardware hub, plans show (CNBC)
• Uber, Lyft Prices at Records Even as Drivers Return (WSJ)
• Even Your Allergist Is Now Investing in Start-Ups (NYTimes)

Friday, August 06 2021 - Fri. 08/06 – The Apple Photo Scanning Controversy

• Apple confirms it will begin scanning iCloud Photos for child abuse images (TechCrunch)
• Yelp will let businesses list their vaccination policies (The Verge)
• John Deere buys autonomous tractor startup Bear Flag Robotics (TechCrunch)

Thursday, August 05 2021 - Thu. 08/05 – Nest Refreshes Everything

• Google’s new Nest cameras and doorbell have lower prices and more smarts (The Verge)
• Ethereum just activated a major change called the ‘London hard fork’ — here’s why it’s a big deal (CNBC)
• Senators propose exclusion of miners, software developers in infrastructure bill’s crypto ‘broker’ definition (The Block)
• U.S. Taps Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Others to Help Fight Ransomware, Cyber Threats (WSJ)
• Nintendo profits decline year-on-year as Switch hits 89 million sold (The Verge)
• Two-year-old events start-up Hopin boomed in the pandemic. Now it’s a $7.75 billion business (CNBC)

Wednesday, August 04 2021 - Wed. 08/04 – Is Robinhood A Meme Stock Now?

• Robinhood surges as much as 81% in second day of wild trading (CNBC)
• Apple, Affirm to Join on Buy Now, Pay Later for Canadian Purchases (Bloomberg)
• WhatsApp launches its ‘View Once’ disappearing photos and videos (The Verge)
• New ‘Google Identity Services’ consolidate sign-in for 3rd-party apps, includes ‘One Tap’ (9to5Google)
• FandangoNOW and Vudu merge into a new streaming service with titles to rent, buy or stream free (TechCrunch)
• Blizzard’s head of HR is out (The Verge)
• Superhuman Raises $75 Million For Its Waitlist-Only Email Productivity App (Forbes)
• This $55 Amazon Smart Soap Dispenser is dumb as dirt (The Verge)
• Smart homes and vegetable peelers (Benedict Evans)

Tuesday, August 03 2021 - Tue. 08/03 – The Pixel 6 And The New Tensor SoC

• THIS IS THE PIXEL 6, GOOGLE’S TAKE ON AN ‘ULTRA HIGH END’ PHONE (The Verge)
• Microsoft’s Windows 365 Cloud PC service will range from $20 to $162 per user per month (ZDNet)
• Apple Makes Magic Keyboard With Touch ID Available for Separate Purchase (MacRumors)
• Tencent Sinks After China Denounces Online Gaming (WSJ)
• Xiaomi Tops European Smartphone Market in Q2 2021 (Strategy Analytics)
• The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream (Wired)
• Spotify is testing a less restrictive ad-supported tier costing $0.99 a month (The Verge)

Monday, August 02 2021 - Mon. 08/02 – Try Some “Diet” YouTube

• YouTube ‘Premium Lite’ subscription offers ad-free viewing for less (The Verge)
• Twitter’s Dorsey leads $29 bln buyout of lending pioneer Afterpay (Reuters)
• Intel Executive Posts Thunderbolt 5 Photo then Deletes It: 80Gbps and Pam-3 (AnandTech)
• Tech Startup Financing Hits Records as Giant Funds Dwarf Venture Capitalists (WSJ)
• Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real (QuantaMagazine)
• Robinhood Sold IPO Shares to More Than 300,000 of Its Customers (WSJ)

Friday, July 30 2021 - Fri. 07/30 – For Amazon, Are Ads > AWS?

• Amazon Gets Record $888 Million EU Fine Over Data Violations (Bloomberg)
• Robinhood falls in its public market debut, closes more than 8% lower at $34.82 per share (CNBC)
• U.S. SEC says Chinese IPO hopefuls must provide additional risk disclosures (Reuters)
• Gopuff confirms new $1B cash injection at a $15B valuation to expand its instant grocery delivery service (TechCrunch)

Thursday, July 29 2021 - Thu. 07/29 – Vaccine Mandates For Big Tech?

• Most Apple Stores to Require Masks Again for Shoppers, Staff (Bloomberg)
• Facebook beats earnings expectations, but warns of significant growth slowdown (CNBC)
• Didi Global Considers Going Private to Placate China and Compensate Investors (WSJ)
• Robinhood CEO on the meme stock craze: ‘I think it’s a real thing’ (CNBC)
• Peacock Reaches 54M Sign-Ups Thanks to Olympics, 20M Monthly Active Users (The Streamable)
• OpenAI proposes open-source Triton language as an alternative to Nvidia’s CUDA (ZDNet)
• Bitcoin Seized by DOJ Headed to Crypto Custodian Anchorage in $6.6 Million Deal (Decrypt)

Wednesday, July 28 2021 - Wed. 07/28 – Earnings Bonanza

• Apple’s iPhone hot streak is going to run into the global chip shortage (CNBC)
• Xbox hardware sales spike 172% as Microsoft reports $3.7B in quarterly gaming revenue (GeekWire)
• YouTube Q2 Ad Revenue Hits Record $7 Billion as Alphabet Trounces Estimates (Variety)
• Taiwan Greenlights TSMC’s 2nm Fab: Coming Online in 2024 ~ 2025 (Tom’s Hardware)
• Activision CEO Apologizes After Employees Threaten to Walk Out (Bloomberg)
• Apple Tells Leaker to Snitch on Sources or It Will Report Them to the Police (Motherboard)
• Brain Technologies raises $50M+ for the launch of Natural, a natural language search engine and ‘super app’ (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, July 27 2021 - Tue. 07/27 – No More Hedging. Tesla Truly Profitable.

• Tesla finally made a profit without the help of emission credits (The Verge)
• Tesla records $23 million in bitcoin-related impairments after cryptocurrency’s second-quarter plunge (CNBC)
• Intel to build Qualcomm chips, aims to catch foundry rivals by 2025 (Reuters)
• Apple releases fix for iOS and macOS zero-day, 13th this year (The Record)
• China Crackdown Makes Hong Kong Index World’s Biggest Tech Loser (Bloomberg)
• Instagram’s new protections for teens come as experts say tween venture poses big risks (NBC News)
• Facebook announces Metaverse product group headed by Instagram VP Vishal Shah (Protocol)
• Element bolsters decentralized team messaging with $30M raise (VentureBeat)

Monday, July 26 2021 - Mon. 07/26 – What The Heck Is Happening In China?

• Tether Executives Said to Face Criminal Probe Into Bank Fraud (Bloomberg)
• Leaders in Cryptocurrency Industry Move to Curb the Highest-Risk Trades (NYTimes)
• Gurman: Face ID on the Mac Coming Within a ‘Couple of Years’ (MacRumors)
• Leaked Surface Duo 2 photos reveal new triple camera system (The Verge)
• China Bans For-Profit School Tutoring in Sweeping Overhaul (Bloomberg)
• China’s education sector crackdown hits foreign investors (FT)
• Why is China smashing its tech industry? (Noahpinion.substack.com)

Friday, July 23 2021 - Fri. 07/23 – Alphabet’s New Moonshot Company: Intrinsic

• Google parent Alphabet launches Intrinsic: a new company to build software for industrial robots (The Verge)
• DeepMind creates ‘transformative’ map of human proteins drawn by artificial intelligence (The Verge)
• Twitter posts fastest revenue growth since 2014 in pandemic rebound (CNBC)
• Snap pops more than 16% on earnings beat and user growth (CNBC)

Thursday, July 22 2021 - Thu. 07/22 – Downvote This Tweet

• Twitter for iOS begins testing dislike button for some users (9to5Mac)
• Clubhouse is no longer invite-only (The Verge)
• Tumblr Introduces Paid Subscription Tool to Woo Younger Bloggers (WSJ)
• ‘Backup by Google One’ is Android’s new unified backup system (9to5Google)
• China Weighs Unprecedented Penalty for Didi After U.S. IPO (Bloomberg)
• HBO Max and HBO Gain 2.8 Million Subscribers in Q2, AT&T Raises Year-End Target for Streaming Service (Variety)
• FTC pledges to fight unlawful right to repair restrictions (The Verge)
• An ‘Airbnb for Pools’ Is Making a Splash This Summer (WSJ)

Wednesday, July 21 2021 - Wed. 07/21 – Is The Narrative Turning On Netflix?

• Netflix’s gaming expansion starts with mobile (The Verge)
• On the list: Ten prime ministers, three presidents and a king (Washington Post)
• A case against security nihilism (Matthew Green)
• Samsung will announce new foldables on August 11 (TechCrunch)
• Biden Names Tech Foe Jonathan Kanter as DOJ Antitrust Chief (Bloomberg)
• Zoom announces general availability of Zoom Apps and its new virtual events platform (ZDNet)
• Crypto Exchange FTX Valued at $18 Billion in Funding Round (WSJ)
• YouTube’s newest monetization tool lets viewers tip creators for their uploads (TechCrunch)
• Verizon is also switching to Android Messages as default for RCS (The Verge)

Tuesday, July 20 2021 - Tue. 07/20 – Apple Once More The Canary In The Covid Coal Mine?

• Apple Delays Office Return by At Least a Month as Covid Spikes (Bloomberg)
• Exclusive: Apple planning redesigned iPad mini with A15 processor, USB-C port, more (9to5Mac)
• Hyper is a new fund that offers $300k checks and promise of a media slingshot for founders (TechCrunch)
• DuckDuckGo launches new Email Protection service to remove trackers (The Verge)
• Edward Snowden calls for spyware trade ban amid Pegasus revelations (The Guardian)
• ‘Best day ever’: Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin rocket touch down after historic spaceflight (USAToday)

Monday, July 19 2021 - Mon. 07/19 – NSO Group (Allegedly) Pwning Everyone

• Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones journalists, activists worldwide (Washington Post)
• U.S. and key allies accuse China of Microsoft Exchange cyberattacks (Axios)
• Zoom is buying cloud contact center provider Five9 for $14.7 billion (CNBC)
• CIRP: iPhone catches up to Android, now accounts for 50% of new smartphone activations in the US (9to5Mac)
• Tesla is charging owners $1,500 for hardware they already paid for (Electrek)

Friday, July 16 2021 - Fri. 07/16 – Can Intel Acquire Its Way Back Into Contention?

• Intel Is in Talks to Buy GlobalFoundries for About $30 Billion (WSJ)
• Valve’s gaming handheld is called the Steam Deck and it’s shipping in December (The Verge)
• New Anthony Bourdain documentary deepfakes his voice (The Verge)

Thursday, July 15 2021 - Thu. 07/15 – Oh Yeah. It Definitely Looks Like Netflix Is Getting Into Gaming.

• Netflix Plans to Offer Video Games in Push Beyond Films, TV (Bloomberg)
• Twitter is shutting down Fleets, its expiring tweets feature (The Verge)
• Facebook plans to pay creators $1 billion to use its products. (NYTimes)
• TSMC Expects Auto-Chip Shortage to Abate This Quarter (WSJ)
• Amazon launches its mobile-first Kindle Vella serialized story platform (Engadget)
• Revolut confirms a fresh $800M in funding at a $33B valuation (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, July 14 2021 - Wed. 07/14 – Did Apple Deep-Six 69? (NOT Nice!)

• Apple, Goldman Plan ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Service to Rival Affirm (Bloomberg)
• Apple Seeks Up to 20% Increase in New iPhone Production for 2021 (Bloomberg)
• Apple releases MagSafe Battery Pack for iPhone 12, available now for $99 (9to5Mac)
• Discord buys Sentropy, which makes AI software that fights online harassment (TechCrunch)
• Amazon Acquires Facebook’s Satellite Internet Group (The Information)
• Facebook’s groups to highlight experts (CNET)
• REvil ransomware gang’s web sites mysteriously shut dow
• Apple’s weather app won’t say it’s 69 degrees (The Verge)

Tuesday, July 13 2021 - Tue. 07/13 – Bribe Or Bot Your Way To Twitter Verification?

• Twitter verified a number of bot accounts—raising questions about security (updated) (DailyDot)
• Gmail deploys support BIMI security standard (The Record)
• Android 12 adds ‘Game dashboard’ and ‘Play as You Download’ in Google Play Store (9to5Google)
• Ring’s end-to-end encryption is rolling out globally (The Verge)
• Disney Plans to Raise ESPN Plus’ Monthly and Annual Subscription Costs (Variety)
• Biden’s non-compete clause executive order is a big deal for Big Tech (Input Magazine)
• Biden Executive Order on Non-Competes Could Roil Tech (Bloomberg)
• Apple AirPod batteries are almost impossible to replace, showing the need for right-to-repair reform (CNBC)
• Tesla’s $16,000 Quote for a $700 Fix Is Why Right to Repair Matters (The Drive)

Monday, July 12 2021 - Mon. 07/12 – Is InfoSec The New Fintech?

• Microsoft Agrees to Acquire Cybersecurity Company RiskIQ (Bloomberg)
• ByteDance Shelved IPO Intentions After Chinese Regulators Warned About Data Security (WSJ)
• Amazon.com Wants to Monitor You in Your Sleep, for Your Benefit (Bloomberg)
• Samsung’s next Galaxy Unpacked device lineup may have been entirely spoiled in huge new leak (The Verge)
• EU Delays Push for Digital Levy to Focus on Global Tax Deal (Bloomberg)
• Box Office: Marvel’s ‘Black Widow’ Debuts With Dazzling $80 Million in Theaters, $60 Million on Disney Plus (Variety)

Thursday, July 08 2021 - Thu. 07/08 – The States Go After Google First

• 36 states, D.C. sue Google for alleged antitrust violations in its Android app store (Politico)
• Visa is partnering with over 50 crypto companies to allow clients to spend and convert digital currencies (Markets Insider)
• OnePlus confirms the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro throttle many popular apps to improve battery life (XDA Developers)
• Global Venture Funding Hits All-Time High In First Half Of 2021, With $288B Invested (Crunchbase News)
• London fintech funding soars in first half of the year (Reuters)
• Twitter Pledges to ‘Fully Comply’ With India Internet Rules (Bloomberg)
• Robinhood’s Debut Is Clouded by SEC Scrutiny of Payment for Order Flow (WSJ)

Wednesday, July 07 2021 - Wed. 07/07 – Pentagon, RE: The JEDI Contract: Jkjkjkjkjk

• Pentagon cancels $10 billion JEDI cloud contract that Amazon and Microsoft were fighting over (CNBC)
• Biden Sets Up Tech Showdown With ‘Right-to-Repair’ Rules for FTC (Bloomberg)
• Y Combinator launches a new way for co-founders to find each other (Protocol)
• Amazon shifts Lumberyard to open source 3D game engine supported by 20 companies (Venture Beat)
• Fake Tesla, Apple Stocks Have Started Trading on Blockchains (Bloomberg)
• China’s Tencent Says It’ll Use Face Recognition to Keep Minors From Gaming at Night (Gizmodo)

Tuesday, July 06 2021 - Tue. 07/06 – New Nintendo Switch (Finally/Kinda)

• Nintendo Switch OLED model will go on sale October 8th for $350 (The Verge)
• Chinese Regulators Suggested Didi Delay Its U.S. IPO (WSJ)
• Didi Shows China’s Tech Giants Must First Answer to Beijing (Bloomberg)
• China’s Big Tech Crackdown Puts Dozens of U.S. IPOs at Risk (Bloomberg)
• Hundreds of Businesses, From Sweden to U.S., Affected by Cyberattack (NYTimes)
• REvil gang asks for $70 million to decrypt systems locked in Kaseya attack (The Record)
• Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says (TechCrunch)
• American Internet Giants Hit Back at Hong Kong Doxxing Law (NYTimes)

Saturday, July 03 2021 - (SPC CST) The Facebook Antitrust Blowup With @Kantrowitz

• @chrismessina (Twitter)
• @brianmcc (Twitter)

Friday, July 02 2021 - Fri. 07/02 – Robinhood’s IPO Success Depends On Doge?

• Robinhood files for long-awaited IPO (Axios)
• How Robinhood’s explosive growth rate came to be (TechCrunch)
• Didi shares fall after China announces cybersecurity review just days after IPO (CNBC)
• Twitter considers new features for tweeting only to friends, under different personas and more (TechCrunch)
• Apple and Intel become first to adopt TSMC’s latest chip tech (Nikkei Asia)

Thursday, July 01 2021 - Thu. 07/01 – Instagram Is “No Longer A Photo-Sharing App”

• Facebook is testing drastic changes to Instagram to make it more like TikTok (CNBC)
• TikTok is rolling out longer videos to everyone (The Verge)
• Federal judge puts Florida ‘deplatforming’ law on hold, citing First Amendment (NBC News)
• Amazon Wants FTC Chair Khan Recused Over Past Criticism (Bloomberg)
• Maine has strictly banned facial recognition from schools and policing (Input)
• The EU’s ‘vaccine passport’ and what it means for travel (BBC)
• Quintopoly? Five tech companies now earn 46% of global ad revenues as news media left behind (Press Gazette)
• Tim Berners-Lee sells web source code NFT for $5.4m (BBC)
• Starlink will be open to everyone in August — not that you’ll want it (Input)
• SpaceX’s Starlink may bring faster Wi-Fi to commercial planes (Input)

Wednesday, June 30 2021 - Wed. 06/30 – Facebook’s Substack Clone

• Facebook announces Bulletin, its Substack newsletter competitor (The Verge)
• Shopify drops its App Store commissions to 0% on developers’ first million in revenue (TechCrunch)
• Google and Microsoft End Their Five-Year Cease-Fire (Bloomberg)
• T-Mobile is offering iPhone owners no-hassle network ‘test drives’ (The Verge)
• Alphabet’s Wing launches OpenSky drone airspace authorization app in US (TechCrunch)
• Zipline raises $250M at $2.75B valuation to build out its instant logistics service (TechCrunch)
• Inside Neeva, the ad-free, privacy-first search engine from ex-Googlers (Fast Company)

Tuesday, June 29 2021 - Tue. 06/29 – Facebook Beats The Rap

• Judge dismisses FTC and state antitrust complaints against Facebook (CNBC)
• Microsoft Office is getting a new design and a native 64-bit Arm version for Windows 11 (The Verge)
• Microsoft and OpenAI have a new A.I. tool that will give coding suggestions to software developers (CNBC)
• YouTube TV Unveils Dolby Digital Support & Premium Add-on with 4K, Offline Downloads, and Unlimited Streams (The Streamable)
• Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball in Exchange for Cryptocurrency (Bloomberg)

Monday, June 28 2021 - Mon. 06/28 – Binance Runs Into Trouble Around The Globe

• Financial watchdog bans crypto exchange Binance from UK (FT)
• The world’s biggest crypto exchange is running into trouble everywhere (Quartz)
• Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 Plus will speed up gaming, AI in high-end 5G phones (Cnet)
• Lenovo announces $679 13-inch Android tablet that works as a portable monitor (The Verge)
• Apple Explores Bigger iPads and Reshuffles Its Car Team (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft admits to signing rootkit malware in supply chain fiasco (Bleeping Computer)
• Microsoft keeps hinting at an October release for Windows 11 (The Verge)
• Meet the activists perfecting the craft of anti-surveillance (FT)

Friday, June 25 2021 - Fri. 06/25 – Some Western Digital NAS Devices Are Getting Ill (matic?)

• WD My Book NAS devices are being remotely wiped clean worldwide (Bleeping Computer)
• Big Tech edges closer to break up after deeply unhinged markup (The Verge)
• Satya Nadella’s closing Windows 11 remarks were a direct shot across Apple’s bow (The Verge)
• Windows 11 is free, but your CPU might not be officially supported (The Verge)

Thursday, June 24 2021 - Thu. 06/24 – New Windows!

• Microsoft announces Windows 11, with a new design, Start menu, and more (The Verge)
• Google delays Chrome’s cookie-blocking privacy plan by nearly 2 years (Cnet)
• BuzzFeed announces plans to go public via SPAC, targets $1.5 billion valuation (CNBC)
• Inside Comcast’s Plan to Become a Streaming Giant (WSJ)
• Google and India’s Jio Platforms announce budget Android smartphone JioPhone Next (TechCrunch)
• South African Brothers Vanish, and So Does $3.6 Billion in Bitcoin (Bloomberg)
• John McAfee, Software Pioneer Turned Fugitive, Dies in Spanish Prison (NYTimes)

Wednesday, June 23 2021 - Wed. 06/23 – Microsoft Joins The $2T Club

• Twitter is opening applications to test Ticketed Spaces and Super Follows (The Verge)
• Apple’s Fight for Control Over Apps Moves to Congress and EU (WSJ)
• Microsoft Rises to Join Apple in Exclusive $2 Trillion Club (Bloomberg)
• Vercel raises $102M Series C for its front-end development platform (TechCrunch)
• Brave’s nontracking search engine is now in beta (TechCrunch)
• What is the ‘brushing’ scam and how can you protect yourself? (Yahoo Life)

Tuesday, June 22 2021 - Tue. 06/22 – More EU Trouble For Google

• EU opens antitrust probe into Google’s advertising business (FT)
• Resolution Games Pulls Blaston Out Of Facebook Ad Test (Upload)
• Entire London Underground to receive mobile coverage by end of 2024 (The Verge)
• Tinder lets people add videos to their dating profiles (Engadget)
• Epic Games releases free anti-cheat and voice chat services for developers (The Verge)
• Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners, Netflix Forge Film Deal in Sign of Changing Hollywood (Variety)
• Monero emerges as crypto of choice for cybercriminals (FT)
• Amazon Snaps Up Option to Buy Stake in AI Truck-Driving Startup (Bloomberg)

Monday, June 21 2021 - Mon. 06/21 – Can Facebook Win Audio?

• Facebook officially launches Live Audio Rooms and podcasts in the US (TechCrunch)
• China to shut down over 90% of its Bitcoin mining capacity after local bans (Global Times)
• Digital euro will protect consumer privacy, ECB executive pledges (FT)
• ‘Woke up sweating’: Some Texans shocked to find their smart thermostats were raised remotely (KHOU)
• Apple Watch accessory maker Wristcam raises $25M (TechCrunch)
• Russia has flown prototypes of its six-seat hybrid VTOL Cyclocar (New Atlas)

Friday, June 18 2021 - Fri. 06/18 – Cell Networks Security Deliberately Nerfed?

• Bombshell Report Finds Phone Network Encryption Was Deliberately Weakened (Vice)
• Ukraine arrests ransomware gang in global cyber criminal crackdown (FT)
• Google may be working on an Android version of Apple’s “Find My” network (XDA Developers)
• Gopuff to Buy Siemens-Backed RideOS in $100 Million-Plus Deal (Bloomberg)

Thursday, June 17 2021 - Thu. 06/17 – How About Some Ads On Your Oculus?

• Facebook to begin testing ads inside Oculus virtual reality headsets (CNBC)
• Xbox’s June update adds speech-to-text chat feature (Engadget)
• Podcasts start coming to Facebook next week (The Verge)
• Amazon Appstore will reduce developer revenue cut from 30% to 20% and give 10% in Free AWS Credit (AFTV News)
• EXCLUSIVE: Google is downsizing its health team and moving employees to Fitbit as part of a major reorganization (Insider)
• Can Streaming Pay? Musicians Are Pinning Fresh Hopes on Twitch. (NYTimes)
• Is Facebook cornering the VR market? (Platformer)

Wednesday, June 16 2021 - Wed. 06/16 – A Nightmare FTC Chair For Big Tech?

• Biden Names Lina Khan, a Big-Tech Critic, as F.T.C. Chair (NYTimes)
• Alphabet’s self-driving car company Waymo announces $2.5 billion investment round (CNBC)
• GM ups spending on EVs and autonomous vehicles by 30% to $35 billion by 2025 on higher profits (CNBC)
• Spotify launches its live audio app and Clubhouse rival, Spotify Greenroom (TechCrunch)
• Windows 11 leak reveals new UI, Start menu, and more (The Verge)
• Apple Struggles in Push to Make Healthcare Its Greatest Legacy (WSJ)

Tuesday, June 15 2021 - Tue. 06/15 – Automattic Acquires Day One

• WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires journaling app Day One (TechCrunch)
• U.S. Supreme Court revives LinkedIn bid to shield personal data (Reuters)
• Investors Clamor for a Bigger Piece of Payments Company Stripe (WSJ)
• Stripe goes beyond payments with Stripe Identity to provide AI-based ID verification for transactions and much more (TechCrunch)
• Amazon brings cashierless tech to full-size grocery store for first time at new Seattle-area location (Geek Wire)
• Netflix Has a Plan to Sell You Toys, T-Shirts and Concert Tickets (Bloomberg)
• Web inventor Berners-Lee to auction original code as NFT (FT)

Monday, June 14 2021 - Mon. 06/14 – An “Extreme” Apple Watch?

• Apple Plans Faster Watch, Future Temperature and Glucose Sensors (Bloomberg)
• Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody (The Verge)
• Amazon’s game streaming service Luna is opening access to all Prime members June 21 and 22 (The Verge)
• Bitcoin just got its first makeover in four years (CNBC)
• TikTok Charges Up to $2 Million a Day for Top Advertising Spots (Bloomberg)
• Austin Is Biggest Winner From Tech Migration, LinkedIn Data Show (Bloomberg)

Friday, June 11 2021 - Fri. 06/11 – Now The Hackers Have Come For Our Hamburgers

• McDonald’s Hit by Data Breach (WSJ)
• Hackers Steal Wealth of Data from Game Giant EA (Vice)
• Apple says its new logon tech is as easy as passwords but far more secure (Cnet)
• Tesla begins deliveries of its new Model S Plaid (CNBC)
• Apple Hires Former BMW Executive for Its Rebooted Car Project (Bloomberg)

Thursday, June 10 2021 - Thu. 06/10 – Another Payoff To Ransomware Hackers

• JBS Paid $11 Million to Resolve Ransomware Attack (WSJ)
• Facebook plans first smartwatch for next summer with two cameras, heart rate monitor (The Verge)
• Microsoft is building its own streaming devices as part of a major Xbox Game Pass expansion (Protocol)
• Samsung pushes pixel size even further with new camera sensor (The Verge)
• Payments giant Stripe launches Stripe Tax to integrate sales tax calculations for 30+ countries (TechCrunch)
• The creator economy is running into the Apple Tax — this startup is fighting back (The Verge)

Wednesday, June 09 2021 - Wed. 06/09 – The First Country To Adopt Bitcoin As Legal Tender

• El Salvador becomes first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender after passing law (CNBC)
• Biden revokes and replaces Trump orders banning TikTok and WeChat (The Verge)
• Fastly claims single customer responsible for widespread internet outage (The Verge)
• Solana Labs raises $314 million in new funding led by A16z and Polychain Capital (The Block)
• Vivaldi 4.0 launches with built-in email and calendar clients, RSS reader (TechCrunch)
• FBI and Australian police ran an encrypted chat platform to catch criminal gangs (The Record)
• Encrypted messaging app used by criminals was actually an FBI honeypot (Input)

Tuesday, June 08 2021 - Tue. 06/08 – Fastly Takes Down The Internet

• Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage (TechCrunch)
• U.S. Retrieves Millions in Ransom Paid to Colonial Pipeline Hackers (WSJ)
• Facebook will show creators how much money Apple and Google take from them (The Verge)
• EXCLUSIVE Apple in talks with CATL, BYD over battery supplies for its electric car (Reuters)
• Adobe launches M1 Mac-native versions of Lightroom Classic and more (The Verge)
• iOS 15: Find My network can still find your iPhone when it is powered off, or factory reset (9to5 Mac)
• Apple adds digital legacy service so users can prepare for the inevitable (Cnet)
• Apple will let users stay on iOS 14 and receive security updates, even after iOS 15 is released (9to5 Mac)
• Apple’s iCloud Plus bundles a VPN, private email, and HomeKit camera storage (The Verge)

Monday, June 07 2021 - WWDC 2021

• Jeff Bezos and his brother will fly on Blue Origin’s first human spaceflight with auction winner (TechCrunch)
• Google Settles Antitrust Case Over Advertising Practices (WSJ)
• Twitter may be close to launching Super Follows, as new research shows what it could look like (The Verge)

Friday, June 04 2021 - Fri. 06/04 – iPad Pro Rumors And WWDC Pre-Hype

• Apple Working on iPad Pro with Wireless Charging, New iPad Mini (Bloomberg)
• Facebook to end special treatment for politicians after Trump ban (The Verge)
• Biden Expands Trump-Era Ban on Investment in Chinese Firms Linked to Military (NYTimes)
• Exclusive-U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism, official says (Reuters)

Thursday, June 03 2021 - Thu. 06/03 – Twitter Launches Twitter Blue!

• Twitter launches its first subscription service (CNBC)
• Apple asks staff to return to office three days a week starting in early September (The Verge)
• WhatsApp to Roll Out Multi-Device Support, Hints at Future iPad App (Mac Rumors)
• Cybersecurity firm NortonLifeLock will let customers mine crypto (CNN)
• Stack Overflow Sold to Tech Giant Prosus for $1.8 Billion (WSJ)
• Google says it’s committed to ethical AI research. Its ethical AI team isn’t so sure. (Recode)

Wednesday, June 02 2021 - Wed. 06/02 – Facebook’s F8 Refresh

• Facebook opens its Messenger API for Instagram to all (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft to reveal its next generation of Windows on June 24th (The Verge)
• Amazon Prime Day set for June 21 and 22 (CNBC)
• Etsy is buying the fashion resale app Depop for $1.6 billion. (NYTimes)
• U.S. says ransomware attack on meatpacker JBS likely from Russia; cattle slaughter resuming (CNBC)
• Meat Buyers Scramble After Cyberattack Hobbles JBS (WSJ)
• Coinbase Lists Dogecoin on Professional Trading Platform (Coindesk)
• Judge dismisses charges against Apple security chief in gun-permit probe (Reuters)

Tuesday, June 01 2021 - Tue. 06/01 – Flagship GPU Headlines From Computex

• Nvidia announces new RTX 3080 Ti, priced at $1,199 and launching June 3rd (The Verge)
• AMD Announces Radeon RX 6000M Series: RDNA2 Makes Its Laptop Debut (AnandTech)
• AMD and Samsung are collaborating on Exynos mobile chips capable of ray-tracing (Engadget)
• Alienware’s New X-Series Laptops Are Its Thinnest Gaming Notebooks Yet (Gizmodo)
• Twitter teams with climate vet to launch local weather news service (Axios)
• Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors (Ars Technica)
• Prepare to Pay More for Uber and Lyft Rides (NYTimes)

Monday, May 31 2021

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Friday, May 28 2021 - Fri. 05/28 – SolarWinds Back In The Headlines

• Russia Appears to Carry Out Hack Through System Used by U.S. Aid Agency (NYTimes)
• Apple Plans Redesigned AirPods for 2021, New AirPods Pro in 2022 (Bloomberg)
• Have I been Pwned goes open source (ZDnet)

Thursday, May 27 2021 - Thu. 05/27 – Upgraded Nintendo Switch Imminent

• Nintendo Plans Upgraded Switch Replacement as Soon as September (Bloomberg)
• You can join Twitter’s Clubhouse-like Spaces rooms from a browser starting Wednesday (The Verge)
• James Bond, Meet Jeff Bezos: Amazon Makes $8.45 Billion Deal for MGM (NYTimes)
• Facebook to Limit Reach of Personal Accounts That Spread Misinformation (Bloomberg)
• PayPal to Let Users Send Bitcoin Off PayPal (Decrypt)
• App Store Scam App Required a Good Review to Function at All (Mac Rumors)
• Snowflake relocates executive office from California to Bozeman, Montana, as company goes distributed (CNBC)
• Stadia’s loss is Clubhouse’s gain: the social audio company has poached a longtime Google engineer (The Verge)
• Andy Jassy will become Amazon’s CEO on July 5th (The Verge)

Wednesday, May 26 2021 - Wed. 05/26 – Amazon To Launch A Rocky Extended Universe?

• Amazon to buy MGM Studios for $8.45 billion (CNBC)
• Exclusive: Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC (Ars Technica)
• Google’s San Jose mega-campus wins city approval. Will it change Bay Area development? (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Tesla is already shipping cars without radar sensors (The Verge)
• USB-C power upgrade delivers a whopping 240W for gaming laptops and other devices (CNET)
• Lightrun raises $23M for its debugging and observability platform (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft support for Linux GUI apps on Windows 10 coming later this year (ZDNet)
• Microsoft unveils developer-focused Teams, Outlook, and Search updates (VentureBeat)

Tuesday, May 25 2021 - Tue. 05/25 – Fuchsia OS Finally Arrives

• Google is officially releasing its Fuchsia OS, starting w/ first-gen Nest Hub (9to5 Google)
• ARM’s first v9 CPUs are built for computers, not just phones (Engadget)
• Florida, in a First, Will Fine Social Media Companies That Bar Candidates (NYTimes)
• Apple Says iPad Pro’s XDR Display Designed to Minimize Blooming, but Some Users Still Notice the Effect (Mac Rumors)
• Airbnb doubles down on flexible search, improves the host flow in preparation for summer 2021 (TechCrunch)
• Poparazzi debuts at #1 on the App Store charts (Protocol)
• Weight-Loss App Noom Gets $540 Million in Silver Lake-Led Round (Bloomberg)

Monday, May 24 2021 - Reading The Tea Leaves Of The Epic/Apple Trial

• Tim Cook plays innocent in Epic v Apple’s culminating testimony (TechCrunch)
• Judge in Fortnite case holds Tim Cook’s feet to the fire over App Store competition (Protocol)
• HomePod and HomePod mini to support Apple Music Lossless in a future software update (9to5 Mac)
• Leaked Emails Show Crime App Citizen Is Testing On-Demand Security Force (Vice)
• The race to understand the exhilarating, dangerous world of language AI (Technology Review)
• Morphing computer chip repels hundreds of professional DARPA hackers (New Atlas)

Saturday, May 22 2021 - (Bonus) How Ransomware Works With Cybereason’s CISO Isreal Barak

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Friday, May 21 2021 - Fri. 05/21 – Snap Is Dead Serious About This AR Stuff

• Snap’s new Spectacles let you see the world in augmented reality (The Verge)
• Snap is buying its AR display supplier for more than $500 million (The Verge)
• Spotify finally adds offline music downloads on Apple Watch (The Verge)
• Netflix Seeks Executive to Expand Game Efforts (The Information)
• U.S. Treasury calls for stricter cryptocurrency compliance with IRS, says they pose tax evasion risk (CNBC)
• Twitter is letting anyone apply for verification for the first time since 2017 (The Verge)

Thursday, May 20 2021 - Thu. 05/20 – Hello F-150 Lightning; Goodbye IE; Hello Again, RSS…

• Ford’s Electric F-150 Pickup Aims to Be the Model T of E.V.s (NYTimes)
• Ford unveils the F-150 Lightning, its all-electric pickup truck that will start under $40,000 (TechCrunch)
• ‘I’m not very social’: ByteDance founder to hand CEO reins to college roommate (Reuters)
• Google is opening its first physical retail store this summer in NYC (The Verge)
• Apple cites ‘significant’ malware on Mac while defending iOS App Store in Fortnite trial (CNet)
• Microsoft is finally retiring Internet Explorer in 2022 (The Verge)
• Chrome testing RSS-powered ‘Follow’ button & feed that keeps the Google Reader dream alive (9to5 Google)

Wednesday, May 19 2021 - Wed. 05/19 – Google I/O Roundup

• Helping all your devices work better together (Google)
• Google plans to build a commercial quantum computer by 2029 (Engadget)
• Google’s Project Starline Videoconference Tech Wants to Turn You Into a Hologram (Wired)
• Nvidia is nerfing new RTX 3080 and 3070 cards for Ethereum cryptocurrency mining (The Verge)
• Ethereum Staking Will Drop Power Consumption by 99% (Crypto Briefing)
• Microsoft officially acknowledges Windows 10X isn’t happening (ZDNet)
• IPAD PRO (2021) REVIEW: DREAM SCREEN (The Verge)

Tuesday, May 18 2021 - Tue. 05/18 – Google I/O

• ANDROID 12 PREVIEW: FIRST LOOK AT GOOGLE’S RADICAL NEW DESIGN (The Verge)
• Amazon Pondering Deal to Buy MGM (The Information)
• Apple Readies MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Revamps (Bloomberg)
• APPLE’S NEW IMAC BRINGS M1 GOODNESS TO THE DESKTOP (The Verge)
• Censorship, Surveillance and Profits: A Hard Bargain for Apple in China (NYTimes)
• Exclusive: These are Apple’s new truly wireless in-ear Beats Studio earbuds (9to5Mac)

Monday, May 17 2021 - Mon. 05/17 – Better Quality Streaming Audio (Basically) For Free

• Apple announces lossless Apple Music is coming in June at no added cost (The Verge)
• Amazon Music Drops HD Tier to $9.99, Shaking Up Hi-Fi Streaming Market (Billboard)
• AT&T to spin off and combine WarnerMedia with Discovery in deal that would create streaming giant (CNN Business)
• Microsoft Teams launches for friends and family with free all-day video calling (The Verge)
• GitHub now lets all developers upload videos to demo bugs and features (Venture Beat)
• ‘Twitter Blue’ subscription service to include undo tweets feature and ‘Collections,’ priced at $2.99 (9to5 Mac)
• Bill Gates Left Microsoft Board Amid Probe Into Prior Relationship With Staffer (WSJ)
• Google’s Android 12 redesign leaks with theme support, new animations, more (Phone Arena)

Saturday, May 15 2021 - (TWTR SPC) Tipping As The Currency For The Creator Economy

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Friday, May 14 2021 - Fri. 05/14 – Now Ransomware Is Shutting Down The Irish Health Service

• Cyber attack ‘most significant on Irish state’ (BBC)
• Disney Plus Hits 103.6 Million Subscribers as Rapid Growth Slows, ESPN Plus Perks Up (Variety)
• STARLINK REVIEW: BROADBAND DREAMS FALL TO EARTH (The Verge)

Thursday, May 13 2021 - Thu. 05/13 – Elon Rekt Crypto

• Tesla stops taking Bitcoin for vehicle purchases, citing environmental harm (The Verge)
• Elon Musk’s SpaceX inks satellite connectivity deal with Google Cloud (The Verge)
• Biden signs executive order designed to strengthen federal digital defenses (Washington Post)
• Roku will launch original programming fueled by Quibi’s content on May 20 (TechCrunch)
• Apple parts ways with employee amid backlash (Axios)
• Facebook-backed crypto project Diem abandons Swiss license application, will move to the U.S. (CNBC)
• Ethereum creator donates meme coins worth $1 billion to help India fight COVID-19 (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, May 12 2021 - Wed. 05/12 – Xiaomi Gets Out Of The Dog House

• US agrees to drop Xiaomi from blacklist after lawsuit (Bloomberg)
• Amazon updates the Echo Show 8 and 5 with better cameras (The Verge)
• GitHub shifts away from passwords with security key support for SSH Git operations (ZDNet)
• EBay officially opens its platform to NFT sales (The Block)
• WhatsApp will gradually stop you calling or messaging contacts if you don’t agree to its new privacy policy (Insider)
• E-scooter company Bird will go public via SPAC (Axios)
• SoftBank joins corporate heavyweights with $37 bln Vision Fund profit (Reuters)
• A Closer Look at the DarkSide Ransomware Gang (Krebs on Security)

Tuesday, May 11 2021 - Tue. 05/11 – It’s New Chip Tuesday!

• Intel Launches 11th Generation Core Tiger Lake-H: Eight Core 10nm Mobile Processors (AnandTech)
• NVIDIA’s RTX 3050 and 3050 Ti bring ray tracing to affordable laptops (Engadget)
• Dell’s new XPS 15 and XPS 17 get upgraded with Intel’s long-awaited 11th Gen H-series chips (The Verge)
• Next-Gen PlayStation VR Is 4K With Foveated Rendering And Vibration Feature (Upload)
• Foxconn’s iPhone output in India down amid COVID surge-sources (Reuters)
• Apple robbed the mob’s bank (Mobile Dev Demo)

Monday, May 10 2021 - Mon. 05/10 – No PlayStation For Me Until 2023?

• Sony warns tight Playstation 5 supply to extend into next year (Bloomberg)
• Colonial hackers stole data Thursday ahead of pipeline shutdown (Bloomberg)
• Here’s the hacking group responsible for the Colonial Pipeline shutdown (CNBC)
• Clubhouse comes to Android after more than a year of iOS exclusivity (The Verge)
• Apple’s 2023 iPhone could ditch Qualcomm and launch with its own 5G chip (Laptop Mag)
• Apple Awards iPhone Glass Supplier Corning Additional $45M From Advanced Manufacturing Fund (Mac Rumors)
• Tesla privately admits Elon Musk has been exaggerating about ‘full self-driving’ (The Verge)
• SNL was a good night for Elon Musk — and a bad one for Dogecoin (Protocol)

Saturday, May 08 2021 - (TWTR SPC) Tip Jar, Basecamp And Doge

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Friday, May 07 2021 - Fri. 05/07 – Twitter Introduces Tip Jar

• Twitter is testing a new Tip Jar feature for sending money to your favorite accounts (The Verge)
• Square gets a bitcoin boost with revenue up 266% (CNBC)
• Playlists and podcasts? Netflix is exploring developing ‘N-Plus’ (Protocol)
• You can now build a “mini media empire” on Substack (FT)
• Everyone yells at the Oversight Board (Platformer)

Thursday, May 06 2021 - Thu. 05/06 – Rage, Rage Against The Dying Of Moore’s Law

• IBM Creates First 2nm Chip (AnandTech)
• Google is going to start automatically enrolling users in two-step verification (ZDNet)
• Google relaxes work from home rules to let more staff be remote (Bloomberg)
• Twitter rolls out improved ‘reply prompts’ to cut down on harmful tweets (TechCrunch)
• Emails reveal Apple’s attempts to stop Netflix from dropping App Store In-App Purchase support (9to5 Mac)
• EXCLUSIVE China’s Tencent in talks with U.S. to keep gaming investments -sources (Reuters)
• SpaceX successfully lands its massive Starship for the first time (New Atlas)

Wednesday, May 05 2021 - Wed. 05/05 – Facebook Oversight Board Upholds Trump Ban

• Facebook’s Trump ban can stay in place, says Oversight Board (The Verge)
• Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Immediately Gets Banned (Gizmodo)
• Facebook Workplace reaches 7 million paid subscribers (CNBC)
• Facebook takes on Nextdoor with Neighborhoods tool (Cnet)
• Dell patches 12-year-old driver vulnerability impacting millions of PCs (The Record)
• Snapchat Can Be Sued Over Role In Fatal Car Crash, Court Rules (NPR)
• Epic CEO says he would have taken a special App Store deal if Apple had offered (9to5 Mac)
• Epic CEO argues Fortnite trial is an existential fight for the future (Protocol)
• Berkshire Hathaway’s Stock Price Is Too Much for Computers (WSJ)

Tuesday, May 04 2021 - Tue. 05/04 – How Many People Still Pay For AOL?

• Twitter expands Spaces to anyone with 600+ followers, details plans for tickets, reminders and more (TechCrunch)
• Twitter is buying Scroll, the subscription service that removes ads from news sites (The Verge)
• Twitter makes all of its money from ads. It’s trying to change that. (Recode)
• Apple hires ex-Google AI scientist who resigned after colleagues’ firings (Reuters)
• Ford backed Argo sees new sensor as key for self driving cars (Bloomberg)
• Apple and Epic go head-to-head in fiery opening remarks of highly-anticipated trial (9to5 Mac)
• About 1.5 million people still pay for AOL — but now they get tech support and identity theft services instead of dial-up internet (CNBC)

Monday, May 03 2021 - Mon. 05/03 – Kuo: Foldable iPhone In 2023!

• Kuo: Apple to Launch 8-Inch Foldable iPhone in 2023 (Mac Rumors)
• Verizon sells media businesses including Yahoo and AOL to Apollo for $5 billion (CNBC)
• Facebook and Instagram notices in iOS apps tell users tracking helps keep them ‘free of charge’ (The Verge)
• A new green cryptocurrency called Chia uses a less energy-intensive method of minting new coins. Here are 6 things to know about the digital asset before it starts trading on Monday. (Markets Insider)
• Microsoft explored reducing its Xbox store cut to shake up console gaming (The Verge)
• Apple’s App Store Had 78% Margin in 2019, Epic Expert Says (Bloomberg)
• Epic v. Apple: Everything you need to know about the biggest trial in tech (Protocol)

Friday, April 30 2021 - Fri. 04/30 – The EU Brings The Hammer Down On Apple

• EU Charges Apple With App Store Antitrust Violations in Spotify Case (WSJ)
• YouTube TV removed from Roku channel store amid Google contract dispute (Axios)
• Apple says the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro will work with the old Magic Keyboard, but ‘may not precisely fit when closed’ (9to5 Mac)
• ‘A Perfect Positive Storm’: Bonkers Dollars for Big Tech (NYTimes)

Thursday, April 29 2021 - Thu. 04/29 – What If This Is A Tech Inflection Point?

• Facebook Revenue Grows 48% as Ad Prices Increase (The Information)
• Apple warns of supply shortages likely to impact iPad and Mac in Q3 (9to5 Mac)
• WarnerMedia plans to charge $9.99 per month for ad-supported HBO Max (CNBC)
• Verizon Explores Sale of Media Assets, Including Parts of Yahoo and AOL (WSJ)
• Amazon to spend $1B to boost pay for 500k operations workers by as much as $3 an hour (Geek Wire)
• Mighty wants to ‘make Chrome faster’ by streaming a browser from the cloud, starting on macOS (9to5 Google)
• Verizon “leads” all US carriers in mmWave 5G availability at 0.8% (Ars Technica)

Wednesday, April 28 2021 - Wed. 04/28 – CES Says: “We’re Doing It Live!”

• CES will return to Las Vegas as an in-person event in 2022 (The Verge)
• Samsung’s new Galaxy Book Pro and Galaxy Book Pro 360 are lightweight laptops with OLED screens (The Verge)
• AirPods demand reportedly falling as Apple cuts production by 25-30% (9 to 5 Mac)
• Inside Netflix’s Quest to End Scrolling: How the company is working to solve one of its biggest threats: decision fatigue. (Vulture)
• Huawei reports 16.5% drop in revenues in first quarter, warns of ‘another challenging year’ ahead (CNBC)
• Microsoft is changing the default Office font and wants your help to pick a new one (The Verge)

Tuesday, April 27 2021 - Tue. 04/27 – EU To Charge Apple This Week?

• EU to charge Apple with anti-competitive behaviour this week (FT)
• Spotify launches podcast subscriptions, but you can’t subscribe in-app (The Verge)
• Apple’s follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production for Mac (Nikkei Asia)
• Amazon’s new Fire HD 10 tablet has slimmer bezels and better specs (The Verge)
• Lyft sells self-driving unit to Toyota’s Woven Planet for $550M (TechCrunch)
• Ransomware gang threatens to expose police informants if ransom is not paid (The Record)

Monday, April 26 2021 - Mon. 04/26 – Listen To The Podcast On Facebook, I Guess?

• Facebook introduces a new miniplayer that streams Spotify within the Facebook app (TechCrunch)
• Zoom launches Immersive View to unify participants in the same virtual room (Venture Beat)
• Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands (Axios)
• OnlyFans feels the lockdown love as transactions hit £1.7bn (FT)
• German groups file Apple antitrust complaint as it makes privacy changes (FT)
• To Be Tracked or Not? Apple Is Now Giving Us the Choice. (NYTimes)
• Apple will spend $1 billion to open 3,000-employee campus in North Carolina (CNBC)
• DoNotPay’s new tool makes your photos undetectable to facial recognition software (Input)

Friday, April 23 2021 - Fri. 04/23 – Spotify Quick To Counter Apple’s Podcast Moves

• Apple, Spotify and the New Battle Over Who Wins Podcasting (WSJ)
• Did a Human or a Computer Crash This Tesla? (Intelligencer)
• Snap reports accelerating revenue growth, strong user numbers for first quarter (CNBC)

Thursday, April 22 2021 - Thu. 04/22 – Cloud Based Cellular Networking?

• US satellite company Dish taps Amazon for 5G launch (FT)
• Apple Plans Notifications, iPad Home Screen Upgrades for iOS 15 (Bloomberg)
• Stolen MacBook Pro Schematics Confirm Apple’s Plans to Add More Ports and Remove Touch Bar (Mac Rumors)
• Software product planning platform Productboard raises $72M (Venture Beat)
• AIRTAG LOCATION TRACKERS ARE SMART, CAPABLE, AND VERY APPLE (The Verge)

Wednesday, April 21 2021 - Wed. 04/21 – GDPR But For AI?

• Artificial Intelligence, Facial Recognition Face Curbs in New EU Proposal (WSJ)
• Instagram launches tools to filter out abusive DMs based on keywords and emojis, and to block people, even on new accounts (TechCrunch)
• Apple announces AirTag accessories that cost more than the device (9 to 5 Mac)
• Ransomware gang tries to extort Apple hours ahead of Spring Loaded event (The Record)
• Netflix falls after pandemic boom reverses to rare weakness (Bloomberg)
• Amazon is bringing palm-scanning payment system to Whole Foods stores (CNBC)

Tuesday, April 20 2021 - Tue. 04/20 – The Apple “Spring Loaded” Media Event

• Apple updates 11” and 12.9” iPad Pros with M1, 8-core GPU, Thunderbolt, up to 2TB storage, 5G, 1080p FaceTime HD camera, and a miniLED screen on the 12.9” model (Techmeme)
• Apple introduces Podcasts Subscriptions to pay creators for content in redesigned app (9to5Mac)
• Facebook unveils suite of new audio products (Axios)
• Clubhouse’s Monthly Downloads Plunged 72% Last Month (The Wrap)
• Cryptocurrency Giant Binance.US Hires Former Top Bank Regulator (WSJ)
• Fitbit’s Luxe is a fashion-focused fitness band that costs $149.95 (The Verge)

Monday, April 19 2021 - Mon. 04/19 – Facebook To Announce Going Big On Audio, Via Audio?

• Facebook plans to go after Clubhouse — and podcasts — with a suite of new audio products (Vox)
• Clubhouse closes an undisclosed $4B valuation Series C round, as tech giants’ clones circle (TechCrunch)
• UK invokes national security to investigate Nvidia’s ARM deal (Reuters)
• Tencent’s Ma dangles billions in aid as antitrust scrutiny grows (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft’s xCloud beta arrives on iOS and PC this week (The Verge)
• What to Expect From Apple’s April 20 Event: New iPads, AirTags and More (Mac Rumors)

Friday, April 16 2021 - Fri. 04/16 – Chip Shortage To Continue; Sucks For Everyone, Basically

• Intel, Nvidia, TSMC execs agree: Chip shortage could last into 2023 (Ars Technica)
• Facebook faces ‘mass action’ lawsuit in Europe over 2019 breach (TechCrunch)
• Apple Music Reveals How Much It Pays When You Stream a Song (WSJ)

Wednesday, April 14 2021 - Wed. 04/14 – Now It’s the FBI Doing The (Legal?) Hacking

• FBI Accesses Computers Around Country to Delete Microsoft Exchange Hacks (Vice)
• Kuo: 2022 iPhones to Feature 48-Megapixel Camera, 8K Video, and 6.1 and 6.7” Sizes With No 5.4” Mini Option (Mac Rumors)
• Kuo: 2023 iPhones to Feature ‘Periscopic’ Telephoto Lens (Mac Rumors)
• Samsung’s third Unpacked event of 2021 set for April 28 (Cnet)
• Sony announces the Xperia 1 III and Xperia 5 III with variable telephoto lenses (The Verge)
• Oculus Quest 2 owners can start testing wireless PC VR gaming with Air Link (Engadget)
• NYPD Deploys “Creepy” New Robot Dog In Manhattan Public Housing Complex (Gothamist)

Tuesday, April 13 2021 - New Surface Laptop 4

• Microsoft announces Surface Laptop 4 with choice of Intel or AMD processors (The Verge)
• Siri Reveals Apple Event Planned for Tuesday, April 20 (Mac Rumors)
• Facebook Announces Oculus Gaming Showcase For April 21 (Upload)
• Nvidia unveils rental model for DGX Station A100 mini supercomputers (Venture Beat)
• Roku’s latest streaming device gives 4K, HDR, and a voice remote for $40 (Ars Technica)
• Spotify’s Car Thing debuts as a limited release for selected US users (The Verge)

Monday, April 12 2021 - Mon. 04/12 – Microsoft Acquires Nuance

• Microsoft buys speech recognition firm Nuance in a $16 billion deal (CNBC)
• Apple Working on Combined TV Box, Speaker to Revive Home Efforts (Bloomberg)
• Apple Facing Supply Shortage of Upcoming High-End iPad Displays (Bloomberg)
• Ant to Be Financial Holding Firm in Overhaul Forced by China (Bloomberg)
• Alibaba’s rivals on alert after China’s regulators hand out record fine (FT)
• Google starts rolling out “Heads Up” in Digital Wellbeing to stop distracted walking (XDA Developers)
• THE 2022 MERCEDES-BENZ EQS IS A DECLARATION OF MAXIMUM ELECTRIC LUXURY (The Verge)

Saturday, April 10 2021 - (TWTR SPACE) The Coinbase Moment For Crypto

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Friday, April 09 2021 - Fri. 04/09 – Amazon Wins The Union Battle

• Partial tally in Amazon union drive favors ‘No’ votes (NYTimes)
• Epic v. Apple discovery details ‘Project Liberty’ scheme to skirt App Store with Fortnite (9to5Mac)
• Apple Admits Purposely Keeping iMessage Off Android Helps Lock Users In (DroidLife)
• Hackers scraped data from 500 million LinkedIn users — about two-thirds of the platform’s userbase — and have posted it for sale online (Insider)
• Neuralink’s brain-computer interface demo shows a monkey playing Pong (Engadget)

Thursday, April 08 2021 - Thu. 04/08 – Now The Chip Shortage Has Come For Apple?

• MacBook and iPad production delayed as supply crunch hits Apple (NikkeiAsia)
• Apple MacBook and iPad production may be delayed over global chip shortage (AppleInsider)
• Twitter Held Discussions for $4 Billion Takeover of Clubhouse (Bloomberg)
• Facebook tests Hotline, a Q&A product that’s a mashup of Clubhouse and Instagram Live (TechCrunch)
• Lenovo’s Legion Phone Duel 2 has not one but two cooling fans (The Verge)
• YouTube is social media’s big winner during the pandemic (CNBC)
• Uber and Lyft ‘throwing money’ at US drivers to ease shortage (FT)
• Google I/O 2021 will be virtual and free to attend from May 18-20 (9to5Google)
• Apple Announces Find My Network With Support for Third-Party Devices (MacRumors)

Wednesday, April 07 2021 - Wed. 04/07 – TLDR: Coinbase Is A Helluva Business

• Coinbase Posts Blowout Q1 Profit of $730-$800 Million, Days Before Public Listing (Decrypt)
• Patreon’s Valuation Triples to $4 Billion as Platform Draws Creators, Fans (WSJ)
• Clubhouse Discusses Funding at About $4 Billion Value (Bloomberg)
• Plaid raises $425M Series D from Altimeter as it charts a post-Visa future (TechCrunch)
• Global Venture Funding Hits All-Time Record High $125B In Q1 2021 (Crunchbase News)
• Alienware’s M15 R5 is its first AMD-based gaming laptop in over a decade (The Verge)
• What Really Caused Facebook’s 500M-User Data Leak? (Wired)

Tuesday, April 06 2021 - Tue. 04/06 – Clubhouse Turns On The Money Spigot Quickly

• Clubhouse’s new direct payments let you toss a coin to creators, and they get 100 percent (The Verge)
• TikTok adds automatic captions to videos in accessibility push (The Verge)
• Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th (The Verge)
• The NFT bubble might be bursting already (CNN Business)
• China Creates Its Own Digital Currency, a First for Major Economy (WSJ)
• E3 2021 Will Take Place as a Free Virtual Conference, In-Person L.A. Event Targeted for Next Year (Variety)
• Streaming Services Have Finally Run Out of New Shows. Kind of. (Bloomberg)

Monday, April 05 2021 - Mon. 04/05 – SCOTUS Rules: APIs Not Copyrightable

• Supreme Court rules in Google’s favor in copyright dispute with Oracle over Android software (CNBC)
• Supreme Court vacates lower court decision on Trump blocking Twitter followers (Axios)
• LG Electronics to end loss-making smartphone business (NikkeiAsia)
• Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers, Labor Board Finds (NYTimes)
• 533 million Facebook users’ phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online (Insider)
• Is Apple’s Privacy Push Facebook’s Existential Threat‪? (Apple Podcasts)
• Sideloading Apps Would ‘Break’ the Security and Privacy of iPhone, Says Tim Cook (MacRumors)
• Tim Cook says Apple is committed to AR, TV+ and privacy but not to Apple Car (Cult of Mac)

Friday, April 02 2021 - Fri. 04/02 – Coinbase Going Public With A Confident Swagger

• Coinbase To Go Public on April 14, Announce Q1 Earnings Beforehand (Decrypt)
• Apple Rejecting Apps With Fingerprinting Enabled As iOS 14 Privacy Enforcement Starts (Forbes)
• Apple knew it was selling defective MacBook displays, judge concludes (The Verge)
• Discord’s new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now (The Verge)
• Exclusive: Tencent’s Timi gaming studio generated $10 billion in 2020, sources say (Reuters)

Thursday, April 01 2021 - Thu. 04/01 – Microsoft’s Pentagon Deal Validates The AR Industry

• Microsoft wins U.S. Army contract for augmented reality headsets, worth up to $21.9 billion over 10 years (CNBC)
• Amazon says it expects some employees to return to the office this summer, most will return in fall (CNBC)
• TSMC to Spend $100 Billion Over Three Years to Grow Capacity (Bloomberg)
• Apple adds two brand new Siri voices and will no longer default to a female or male voice in iOS (TechCrunch)
• Comcast Weighs Pulling Universal’s Movies From HBO Max, Netflix (Bloomberg)
• Thrasio raises $100M for its Amazon roll-up play, appoints retail CFO for its next steps (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, March 31 2021 - Wed. 03/31 – Everything Old Is New Again In The News Feed

• Facebook Adds New ‘Most Recent’ Timeline to Switch to Chronological Posts (MacRumors)
• LinkedIn confirms it’s working on a Clubhouse rival, too (TechCrunch)
• Apple invests $50M into music distributor UnitedMasters alongside A16z and Alphabet (TechCrunch)
• Android sends 20x more data to Google than iOS sends to Apple, study says (Ars Technica)
• Deliveroo drags on the LSE; closes down 44% on debut (TechCrunch)
• Maker of NBA Top Shot Scores $305 Million in New Funding (WSJ)
• ConsenSys Lines Up Damien Hirst to Launch New NFT Art Protocol (Decrypt)
• Manticore Games raises $100M for user-generated games in the ‘multiverse’ (GamesBeat)

Tuesday, March 30 2021 - Tue. 03/30 – Spotify To Spin Up Clubhouse Competitor

• Spotify is launching its own Clubhouse competitor (The Verge)
• Spotify acquires Betty Labs, creator of live audio app Locker Room (Axios)
• Amazon Steps Up Silicon Ambitions With New Networking Chip (The Information)
• Google is making some big upgrades to directions in Google Maps (The Verge)
• Apple officially announces virtual WWDC 2021 for June, iOS 15 and more expected (9to5Mac)
• Amazon is sending employees into the trenches on Twitter as it battles its first union vote and reports about workers peeing in bottles (Insider)
• Cameo Aims to Connect Celebrities With Fans and It’s Now Valued at $1 Billion (WSJ)
• Volvo and Aurora team up on fully autonomous trucks for North America (The Verge)
• Xiaomi announces the Mi Mix Fold, its first folding phone (The Verge)

Monday, March 29 2021 - Mon. 03/29 – Ok, Will Digital Vaccine Passports Work?

• New York launches nation’s first ‘vaccine passports.’ Others are working on similar ideas, but many details must be worked out. (USAToday)
• Exclusive: Visa moves to allow payment settlements using cryptocurrency (Reuters)
• PHP’s Git server hacked to add backdoors to PHP source code (BleepingComputer)
• Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch: a new robot designed to move boxes in warehouses (The Verge) (The Verge)
• Amazon keeps trying to troll US Congress members in perplexing new PR strategy (The Verge)
• Amazon Union Vote Ends as Both Sides Brace for Contentious Count (Bloomberg)
• Amazon started a Twitter war because Jeff Bezos was pissed (Recode)

Friday, March 26 2021 - Fri. 03/26 – The House Tech Hearings Were… Whatever…

• Yes or no: Are these tech hearings doing anything? (The Verge)
• Apple Considers Launching Rugged Watch for Extreme Sports (Bloomberg)
• Slack is getting new audio features (Protocol)
• WeWork Agrees to SPAC Deal That Would Take Startup Public (WSJ)

Thursday, March 25 2021 - Thu. 03/25 – DDR5 Arrives (F* Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades)**

• Samsung Announces 512GB DDR5 Memory That Is Twice As Fast As DDR4 (HotHardware)
• Zuckerberg suggests how to tweak tech’s liability shield (Axios)
• Genshin Impact Races Past $1 Billion on Mobile in Less Than Six Months (SensorTower)
• Arizona Senate skips vote on controversial bill that would regulate Apple and Google app stores (The Verge)
• Independent cloud provider DigitalOcean drops in Wall Street debut (CNBC)
• Deliveroo Hit by Investor, Rider Revolt Ahead of London IPO (Bloomberg)
• Twitter’s ‘unofficial mayor’ Chrissy Teigen quits platform after years of harassment (The Verge)

Wednesday, March 24 2021 - Wed. 03/24 – Buying Teslas With Bitcoin Is More Bullish For Whom?

• Elon Musk says people can now buy a Tesla with bitcoin (CNBC)
• WhatsApp for work: Slack is turning into a full-on messaging app (Protocol)
• Trading App Robinhood Says It Filed Confidentially for IPO (Bloomberg)
• Intel invests $20 billion into new factories, will produce chips for other companies (The Verge)
• Exclusive: Qualcomm is planning an Android-powered Nintendo Switch knockoff (Android Police)
• Medium Tells Journalists to Feel Free to Quit After Busting Union Drive (Motherboard)
• Verizon to center media arm around new subscription platform Yahoo+ (Axios)
• Amazon hires former executive Adam Selipsky to run AWS (CNBC)
• Prince Harry Is Taking on a New Job Title: Chief Impact Officer at BetterUp (WSJ)

Tuesday, March 23 2021 - Tue. 03/23 – Microsoft To Buy Discord?

• Microsoft in Talks to Buy Discord for More Than $10 Billion (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft rebrands Xbox Live to Xbox network (The Verge)
• Pikmin is the next AR game from the makers of Pokémon Go (The Verge)
• Nintendo to Use New Nvidia Graphics Chip in 2021 Switch Upgrade (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft, Google, and others join forces to improve browser compatibility (Neowin)
• Facebook will bring back F8 on June 2 as a pared-back, single-day, virtual-only conference for developers (TechCrunch)
• Angry MacBook owners get class action status for butterfly keyboard suit (The Verge)
• Jack Dorsey’s first tweet sold as an NFT for an oddly specific $2,915,835.47 (The Verge)

Monday, March 22 2021 - Mon. 03/22 – Unusual Trouble At Red-Hot Startup Dispo

• David Dobrik, Losing Sponsors and Fans, Steps Down From App He Co-founded (NYTimes)
• Spark Capital decides to “sever all ties” with David Dobrik’s Dispo app weeks after leading deal (TechCrunch)
• Zoom introduces new SDK to help developers tap into video services (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft to start reopening headquarters on March 29th, with hybrid workplace focus (The Verge)
• Apple’s HomePod Mini Has a Secret Sensor Waiting to Be Switched On (Bloomberg)
• Inside the Democrats’ strategy to bombard Big Tech (Axios)
• On-demand logistics and fulfillment startup Flowspace raises $31M (VentureBeat)

Friday, March 19 2021 - Fri. 03/19 – A Rebel Alliance, Led By Facebook, And Born In A Clubhouse Room?

• Facebook Is Building An Instagram For Kids Under The Age Of 13 (BuzzFeed News)
• Twitter begins testing a way to watch YouTube videos from the home timeline on iOS (TechCrunch)
• Telegram takes on Clubhouse with Voice Chat 2.0 (XDA Developers)
• Zuckerberg: Facebook may actually be in a ‘stronger position’ after Apple’s iOS 14 privacy changes (CNBC)
• China to Restrict Tesla Use by Military and State Employees (WSJ)

Thursday, March 18 2021 - Thu. 03/18 – An April Apple Event?

• Apple Nears Launch of New iPads After Stay-At-Home Sales Boost (Bloomberg)
• PS5’s VR 2.0: First Look At New Controllers (GameSpot)
• YouTube Shorts arrives in the US to take on TikTok, but the beta is still half-baked (The Verge)
• Spotify says over 13,000 artists’ catalogs earned at least $50K in royalties last year (The Verge)
• Here’s why Substack’s scam worked so well (The Hypothesis)
• Substack is for independent writers (Substack Blog)
• Crypto marketplace OpenSea raises $23 million to be the ‘Amazon of NFTs’ (Fortune)
• Intel puts Apple’s ‘I’m a Mac’ guy into new ads praising PCs (The Verge)

Wednesday, March 17 2021 - Wed. 03/17 – Samsung’s 2nd Unpacked Brings New A-series Phones

• Samsung’s midrange phones now feature fast refresh rate screens, stabilized cameras (The Verge)
• Samsung Warns of Severe Chip Crunch While Delaying Key Phone (Bloomberg)
• Google cuts app store fees for developers on first million in annual sales (CNBC)
• Google and Apple are giving up less than 5% of their revenue from apps with payout changes, analytics firm estimates (CNBC)
• Uber grants UK drivers worker status after losing major labor battle (CNBC)
• Pinduoduo Founder Colin Huang Steps Down From Company (WSJ)
• Clubhouse Tweet Thread (ShaanVP)
• Tampa Twitter hacker agrees to three years in prison (Tampa Bay Times)

Tuesday, March 16 2021 - Tue. 03/16 – The 2nd Gen Nest Hub Gets Sleep Tracking

• Google announces 2nd-gen Nest Hub with Soli-powered ‘Sleep Sensing’ for $99 (9to5Google)
• Intel’s 11th Gen desktop chips are here with faster speeds but fewer cores (The Verge)
• Dropbox will have a free password manager in April — if you’ve got 50 or fewer passwords (The Verge)
• Xi Warns Against Tech Excess in Sign Crackdown Will Widen (Bloomberg)
• Alibaba browser pulled from Chinese app stores (FT)
• Exclusive: Investors value China’s Ant Group at over $200 billion after IPO halt - sources (Reuters)
• A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16 (Motherboard)

Monday, March 15 2021 - Mon. 03/15 – Stripe The Most Successful (Private) SV Startup Ever?

• Stripe valuation soars to $95bn after latest fundraising (FT)
• Airtable Tops $5.7 Billion Valuation On Growing Enterprise Sales And A Soaring Cloud Market (Forbes)
• Facebook aims to get more people vaccinated against COVID-19 (CNET)
• Massive Facebook study on users’ doubt in vaccines finds a small group appears to play a big role in pushing the skepticism (Washington Post)
• White House Weighs New Cybersecurity Approach After Failure to Detect Hacks (NYTimes)
• China Lays Plans to Tame Tech Giant Alibaba (WSJ)
• Clubhouse announces accelerator program for creators on its platform (The Verge)

Friday, March 12 2021 - Netflix Is Cracking Down On Password Sharing

• Netflix Begins Test to Crack Down on Password Sharing Outside Your Household (The Streamable)
• Apple sues former employee for stealing trade secrets, leaking information to the media (9to5Mac)
• SoftBank-Backed Coupang Prices U.S. IPO Above Target (Bloomberg)
• I guess I have to watch ads everywhere on my $1,500 LG TV now (The Verge)

Thursday, March 11 2021 - Thu. 03/11 – The Roblox Debut

• Roblox jumps to $38 billion market cap as public investors get their first crack at the popular kids game app (CNBC)
• Twitter plans to let anyone start hosting Twitter Spaces in April (The Verge)
• Verkada Workers Had Extensive Access to Private Customer Cameras (Bloomberg)
• Google paves way to monetize Pay users’ data in India (TechCrunch)
• Photoshop now runs natively on Apple’s M1 Macs (The Verge)
• iPhone 13 to Finally Feature Bigger Batteries (MacRumors)
• Oppo Find X3 Pro goes official w/ Snapdragon 888, 120Hz display, ‘microlens’ camera (9to5Google)
• Beeple sold an NFT for $69 million (The Verge)

Wednesday, March 10 2021 - Wed. 03/10 – Now The Hackers Are In The Security Cams

• Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals (Bloomberg)
• Apple slashes planned iPhone 12 mini production for 1H (NikkeiAsia)
• Google links Android phones to Chromebooks with new Phone Hub feature (The Verge)
• TikTok adds new comment controls to discourage bullying (Engadget)
• ‘Follow our podcast’: Apple Podcasts to stop using ‘subscribe’ (Podnews)
• T-Mobile to Step Up Ad Targeting of Cellphone Customers (WSJ)
• Amazon has over 800 people working on its secretive ‘Vesta’ home robot — but insiders are worried that it’s a niche, gimmicky product that could fail (Insider)
• Inside Facebook Reality Labs: The Next Era of Human-Computer Interaction (Tech@Facebook)
• Facebook’s ready to talk about how its AR glasses will work with neural wristbands (CNET)
• Samsung sets March 17 for its second Unpacked event of 2021 (CNET)

Tuesday, March 09 2021 - Tue. 03/09 – An FTC Commissioner To Make Silicon Valley Cower?

• POLITICO Playbook: Scoop: Biden taps another Big Tech trustbuster (Politico)
• Amazon’s Antitrust Antagonist Has a Breakthrough Idea (NYTimes)
• Attacks on SolarWinds Servers Also Linked To Chinese Threat Actor (The Record)
• Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 will reportedly include both AMD and Intel configurations (The Verge)
• Apple releases iOS 14.4.1 and macOS 11.2.3 to address a WebKit vulnerability (Engadget)
• Why popular YouTubers are building their own sites (BBC News)
• LOGITECH’S CIRCLE VIEW DOORBELL IS THE CLOSEST THING WE HAVE TO AN APPLE-MADE DOORBELL (The Verge)

Monday, March 08 2021 - Mon. 03/08 – Apple AR Contact Lenses As The Apple Rumor Singularity

• Kuo: Apple to Launch Mixed Reality Headset in Mid 2022 and Augmented Reality Glasses by 2025 (MacRumors)
• Preparing for Retaliation Against Russia, U.S. Confronts Hacking by China (NYTimes)
• Smartphone Lobby Wants Conference for 50,000 People in June (Bloomberg)
• The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo (Ars Technica)
• Quantum-Computing Startup IonQ Plans Public Debut in $2 Billion SPAC Merger (WSJ)
• Sidewalk robots get legal rights as “pedestrians” (Axios)

Friday, March 05 2021 - Fri. 03/05 – Eyes Emoji On Tim Wu Joining The Biden Administration

• A Leading Critic of Big Tech Will Join the White House (NYTimes)
• Here’s what Twitter’s rumored ‘undo send’ feature could look like (The Verge)
• Turntable.fm is back from the dead — and now there are two (The Verge)
• Survey finds that the reported exodus of tech companies from San Francisco’s Bay Area is ‘greatly exaggerated’ (Insider)

Thursday, March 04 2021 - Thu. 03/04 – Is Square Buying Tidal A Watershed Moment For The Creator Economy?

• Square acquires majority of Tidal, Jay-Z’s streaming service, in $297 million deal. (NYTimes)
• Apple Launches Service for Transferring iCloud Photos and Videos to Google Photos (MacRumors)
• Apple Probed by U.K. as App Store Payments Scrutiny Mounts (Bloomberg)
• Ethereum now an option on Amazon’s managed blockchain service (The Block)
• Comcast: Pandemic drove peak internet traffic up 32% in 2020 (VentureBeat)

Wednesday, March 03 2021 - Wed. 03/03 – Google (Sorta) Pivots To Privacy

• Google promises it won’t just keep tracking you after replacing cookies (The Verge)
• Google to Stop Selling Ads Based on Your Specific Web Browsing (WSJ)
• Microsoft says China-backed hackers are exploiting Exchange zero-days (TechCrunch)
• Recovering from the SolarWinds hack could take 18 months (MIT Technology Review)
• Microsoft launches Power Fx, a new open source low-code language (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft Mesh feels like the virtual future of Microsoft Teams meetings (The Verge)
• Brave is launching its own search engine with the help of ex-Cliqz devs and tech (TechCrunch)
• Amazon shaves app icon mustache that raised eyebrows (The Verge)

Tuesday, March 02 2021 - Tue. 03/02 – iPhone 13 To Go Notch-Less?

• Kuo: iPhone 13 series to feature smaller notch, 120Hz display, larger batteries, more (9to5Mac)
• All 270 US Apple Stores are open for the first time since March 2020 (9to5Mac)
• Microsoft to add new shared channels, encryption for calls, webinar features to Teams (ZDNet)
• Microsoft’s new Intelligent Speakers deliver its promised meeting room of the future (The Verge)
• Instacart’s valuation doubles to $39 billion (CNBC)
• Grimes made $5.8 million in under 20 minutes selling crypto-based artwork (Insider)
• How a 10-second video clip sold for $6.6 million (Reuters)
• Forget ‘Succession.’ You Can Watch ‘90 Day Fiancé’ for 100 Hours Straight. (NYTimes)
• Researchers introduce a new generation of tiny, agile drones (MIT News)

Monday, March 01 2021 - Mon. 03/01 – Instagram Launches Live Rooms For Group Broadcasts

• Instagram launches ‘Live Rooms’ for live broadcasts with up to four creators (TechCrunch)
• Verizon support says you should turn off 5G to save your phone’s battery (The Verge)
• Lime says it will spend $50 million on a huge e-bike expansion (The Verge)
• Skydio valuation raises American hopes in drone war with China (FT)
• Klarna Valued at $31 Billion After U.S. Growth Stoked Investors (Bloomberg)
• As BNPL startups raise, a look at Klarna, Affirm and Afterpay earnings (TechCrunch Extra)
• NFTs and a Thousand True Fans (Chris Dixon)

Friday, February 26 2021 - Fri. 02/26 – Twitter Does ALL The Things (Even $$$ For Tweets)

• Twitter announces paid Super Follows to let you charge for tweets (The Verge)
• Twitter planning a feature to let you auto-block and mute abusive accounts (The Verge)
• Google launches Android Sleep API to detect snoozing, waking up; available to apps now (9to5Google)
• 1Password has none, KeePass has none… So why are there seven embedded trackers in the LastPass Android app? (The Register)
• European Smartphone Market Down 14% YoY in 2020; Xiaomi gains while Huawei and Samsung Lose (Counterpoint Research)

Thursday, February 25 2021 - Thu. 02/25 – The Biden Administration Addressed The Chip Shortage

• Biden Orders Broad Supply-Chain Review Amid Chip Shortages (WSJ)
• Coinbase Reveals $322M in Profit For 2020 Ahead of Landmark Public Debut (Decrypt)
• ViacomCBS bets you will subscribe to 5 or more streaming services, leaving plenty of room for Paramount+ (CNBC)
• Verizon Leads 5G Airwave Bidding With Record $45 Billion Splurge (Bloomberg)
• NFT marketplace Sorare raises $50 million in Series A led by Benchmark (The Block)
• Ethereum scaling startup Optimism raises $25 million Series A led by a16z (The Block)
• Otter.ai raises $50 million for AI transcription (VentureBeat)

Wednesday, February 24 2021 - Facebook Defends Its Stance In Australia

• The Real Story of What Happened With News on Facebook in Australia (Facebook Newsroom)
• Facebook got everything it wanted out of Australia by being willing to do what the other guy wouldn’t (Nieman Lab)
• MicroStrategy Buys $1 Billion More Bitcoin, Totalling $4.5 Billion (Decrypt)
• HP is buying gaming accessory brand HyperX for $425 million (The Verge)
• Apple’s App Sign-in Button Becomes Hot-Button Issue in U.S. Antitrust Probe (The Information)
• How social networks got competitive again (Casey Newton’s Platformer)
• VCs are chasing Hopin upwards of $5-6B valuation (TechCrunch)
• Qualcomm’s new AR ‘Smart Viewer’ lets you pin virtual screens to your walls (The Verge)

Tuesday, February 23 2021 - Tue. 02/23 – Australia Caves To Facebook

• Facebook to reverse news ban on Australian sites, government to make amendments to media bargaining code (ABC.net.au)
• PlayStation CEO says PS5 will get its own VR headset, explains console supply chain shortfall (Washington Post)
• Huawei’s Mate X2 foldable adopts Samsung’s dual-screen design (The Verge)
• Kuo: New MacBook Pro Models With HDMI Port and SD Card Reader to Launch Later This Year (MacRumors)
• New malware found on 30,000 Macs has security pros stumped (Ars Technica)
• Inside ‘NBA Top Shot,’ the Digital Highlights Marketplace Worth Millions (Bleacher Report)

Monday, February 22 2021 - Mon. 02/22 – Spotify’s New “HiFi” Subscription Tier

• Spotify HiFi is a lossless streaming tier coming later this year (The Verge)
• Clubhouse Chats Are Breached, Raising Concerns Over Security (Bloomberg)
• Apple Surpassed Samsung as World’s Largest Smartphone Maker in Fourth Quarter (MacRumors)
• Restaurant-Software Provider Toast Prepares for IPO (WSJ)
• Google fires another AI ethics leader (Axios)
• Australia’s ABC News shot to the top of the App Store charts following Facebook’s news ban (The Verge)

Friday, February 19 2021 - Fri. 02/19 – UK Supreme Court Officially Smacks Down Uber

• Uber loses a major employment rights case as the UK’s top court rules its drivers are workers (CNBC)
• Android 12 developer preview is available now with many under-the-hood updates (The Verge)
• Apple Is Working on Magnetic Battery Pack Attachment for IPhones (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft announces Office 2021, available for Windows and macOS later this year (The Verge)

Thursday, February 18 2021 - Thu – 02/18 – Facebook Calls Australia’s Bluff; Google Pays Off Murdoch

• Facebook restricts users, publishers from sharing news content in Australia (AP)
• Facebook calls Australia’s bluff (Platformer)
• SpaceX Funding Round at $74 Billion Valuation Was Led by Sequoia (Bloomberg)
• NVIDIA Annoucnes CMP 30HX, 40HX, 50HX and 90HX GPUs For Mining, Cripples Hash Rate Of RTX 3060 (WCCFTech)
• Apple Hiring Engineers to Develop 6G Wireless (Bloomberg)
• If Work Is Going Remote, Why Is Big Tech Still Building? (Wired)

Wednesday, February 17 2021 - Epic Games Takes Its War With Apple To Europe

• Epic Games files EU antitrust complaint against Apple (FT)
• Apple wins victory as North Dakota votes down bill that would regulate app stores (CNBC)
• New York Sues Amazon, Saying It Inadequately Protected Workers From Covid-19 (NYTimes)
• Amazon won’t build this Alexa cuckoo clock unless it hits a preorder goal (The Verge)
• Google Maps will now let you pay for public transportation and parking through its app (The Verge)
• Chromebooks outsold Macs worldwide in 2020, cutting into Windows market share (GeekWire)
• Ethereum NFT Market Primed for Explosive Growth in 2021 (Decrypt)
• First Look: 217 New Emojis in iOS 14.5 (Emojipedia)

Tuesday, February 16 2021 - Tue. 02/16 – Bitcoin Crosses $50k

• Bitcoin Jumps to $50,000 as Record-Breaking Rally Accelerates (Bloomberg)
• Essential is now officially owned by Carl Pei’s Nothing Technologies (9to5Google)
• Microsoft’s new Office app now available on iPad (The Verge)
• New Samsung laptops rumored to include OLED screens and S Pen support (The Verge)
• Big Tech’s Next Big Problem Could Come From People Like ‘Mr. Sweepy’ (NYTimes)
• Retro photo app is winning buz
• The bull case for Dispo (Justin Potts)

Monday, February 15 2021 - Mon. 02/15 – First Look At xCloud Via Browser

• Here’s a first look at Microsoft’s xCloud for the web (The Verge)
• Facebook Plans Smartwatch With Focus on Messaging, Health (The Information)
• Facebook Meets Apple in Clash of the Tech Titans—‘We Need to Inflict Pain’ (WSJ)
• Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm Protest Nvidia’s Acquisition of Arm Ltd. (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft’s Big Win in Quantum Computing Was an ‘Error’ After All (Wired)
• ViacomCBS Goes ‘All-In’ on Streaming, But Without Many of Its Top Shows (Bloomberg)

Saturday, February 13 2021 - (Bonus) Is Silicon Valley “Over?” With Bloomberg’s @noahpinion

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Friday, February 12 2021 - Fri. 02/12 – Google Adds Pixel-Exclusive Photo Editing Features To Google Photos

• Google Photos gets new paywalled editing features for Google One subscribers (The Verge)
• First Apple TV+ AR app launches with ‘For All Mankind’ backstory through mixed reality (9to5Mac)
• Disney says it now has 94.9 million Disney+ subscribers (CNBC)
• Apple Watch Is Now Worn on 100 Million Wrists (Above Avalon)
• Bumble stock closes up 63% after soaring in market debut (CNBC)

Thursday, February 11 2021 - Facebook Wants To Copy Clubhouse Too.

• Facebook Is Said to Be Building a Product to Compete With Clubhouse (NYTimes)
• Microsoft approached Pinterest about a takeover (FT)
• iOS 14.5 Beta Directs ‘Safe Browsing’ Traffic in Safari Through Apple Server Instead of Google to Protect Personal User Data (MacRumors)
• Bumble makes Wall Street debut in a milestone moment for female founders (CNN Business)
• NBCUniversal’s Streaming Strategy Raises Prospect of WarnerMedia Merger (The Information)
• Andreessen Horowitz Wins Deal for Creator Economy Startup Stir at $100 Million Valuation (The Information)
• Machines Are Inventing New Math We’ve Never Seen (Motherboard)

Wednesday, February 10 2021 - Wed. 02/10 – TikTok Pardoned By Biden?

• TikTok Sale to Oracle, Walmart Is Shelved as Biden Reviews Security (WSJ)
• Salesforce declares the 9-to-5 workday dead, will let some employees work remotely from now on (The Verge)
• Apple reportedly developing next-gen ultra-thin displays for AR devices with TSMC (The Verge)
• How Did A LeBron James Video Highlight Sell For $71,455? A Look At A Burgeoning Product Called NBA Top Shot. (Forbes)
• Biggest Ever NFT Sale Made as ‘Axie Land’ Goes for $1.5 Million (Decrypt)
• Microsoft launches Bulletins and Milestones apps for Teams (Windows Central)
• Apple Maps Adds Waze-Like Features in iOS 14.5 for Crowdsourcing Accidents, Speed Traps and Hazards (MacRumors)
• Is This Beverly Hills Cop Playing Sublime’s ‘Santeria’ to Avoid Being Live-Streamed? (Vice)

Tuesday, February 09 2021 - Tue. 02/09 – Amazon To Release An Alexa ‘Command Center?’

• Amazon Plans Wall-Mounted Echo as Smart Home Command Center (Bloomberg)
• This may be our first look at Android 12, Google’s next Android OS (XDA)
• Reddit’s Valuation Doubles to $6 Billion After Funding Round (WSJ)
• Mark Cuban is co-founding a podcast app where hosts can talk to fans live and monetize their conversations (The Verge)
• Qualcomm’s new X65 5G modem downloads data at lightning-fast 10Gbps speeds (CNet)
• The Rust programming language just took a huge step forwards (ZDNet)
• Hacker Tried to Poison Florida City’s Water Supply, Police Say (Motherboard)

Monday, February 08 2021 - Mon. 02/08 – Tesla Buys Bitcoin While Elon Sends Dogecoin To The Moon!

• Tesla buys $1.5 billion in bitcoin, plans to accept it as payment (CNBC)
• Clubhouse is now blocked in China after a brief uncensored period (TechCrunch)
• Apple Car Talks Aren’t Happening, Say Automakers Hyundai, Kia (Bloomberg)
• Twitter Considers Subscription Fee for Tweetdeck, Unique Content (Bloomberg)
• TikTok takes on Facebook with US ecommerce push (FT)
• Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2020 Retrospective (Platformonomics)
• Xiaomi’s global Mi 11 has a Snapdragon 888 for €749 (The Verge)

Friday, February 05 2021 - Fri. 02/05 – An Apple Ad-pocalypse For Everyone?

• Facebook’s not the only one worried about Apple’s privacy change — Snap and Unity both just warned investors about it (CNBC)
• An Interview with Eric Seufert about Apple, Facebook, and Mobile Advertising (Stratechery)
• Google taps your phone cameras to measure your heart rate (Engadget)
• Chinese flock to freewheeling US chat app Clubhouse (Nikkei Asia)
• Ford says ‘millions’ of its vehicles will run on Google’s Android starting in 2023 (The Verge)
• Car manufacturing hit by global semiconductor shortage (FT)

Thursday, February 04 2021 - Thu. 02/04 – The Most Details On Apple’s AR/VR Headset Yet

• New Apple Mixed-Reality Headset Details: Swappable Headbands, Eye-Tracking (The Information)
• Apple and Hyundai-Kia pushing toward deal on Apple Car (CNBC)
• Kuo: iPhone 13 Now More Likely to Get Upgraded Ultra Wide Camera With Improved Low-Light Performance (MacRumors)
• Amazon is using AI-equipped cameras in delivery vans and some drivers are concerned about privacy (CNBC)
• Klobuchar to Introduce Antitrust Bill Raising Bar for Technology Deals (WSJ)
• The Technology 202: Klobuchar’s new antitrust bill may hit Big Tech where it hurts (Washington Post)

Wednesday, February 03 2021 - Wed. 02/03 – Bezos Drops Mic

• Email from Jeff Bezos to employees (Amazon)
• Amazon’s next CEO, Andy Jassy, transformed e-commerce company into a cloud computing giant (CNBC)
• Amazon.com Announces Financial Results and CEO Transition (Amazon Investor Relations)
• Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2020 Results (Alphabet Investor Relations)
• Kia Motors Shares Jump After Report Apple to Invest $3.6 Billion (Bloomberg)
• Facebook starts rolling out Messenger on Oculus headsets (Engadget)
• 60+ Oculus Quest Apps Made More Than $1 Million (UploadVR)
• Google Meet’s new ‘green room’ lets you do an audio / video pre-check (The Verge)
• Zoom adds virtual receptionists for when people start going back to the office (CNBC)

Tuesday, February 02 2021 - Tue. 02/02 – Ok, But Is Stadia Long For This World?

• Google Stadia Shuts Down Internal Studios, Changing Business Focus (Kotaku)
• Google now gives you more information about the sites in your search results (TechCrunch)
• iOS 14.5 will let Apple Watch owners unlock iPhones while wearing a mask (Engadget)
• Uber buying booze delivery company Drizly for $1.1 billion (Axios)
• Kuo: ‘Apple Car’ to use Hyundai’s E-GMP platform, GM and PSA partnerships possible (Apple Insider)
• Robinhood Raises Another $2.4 Billion From Shareholders (WSJ)
• Amazon Unveils Outdoorsy New HQ2, Renewing Its Commitment to Offices (WSJ)

Monday, February 01 2021 - Mon. 02/01 – Google Deadpools The Pixel Slate

• Apple’s iCloud Passwords extension for Chrome on Windows is now available (9to5Google)
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: There is ‘a big crisis right now’ for cybersecurity (Yahoo Finance)
• Facebook Knew Calls for Violence Plagued ‘Groups,’ Now Plans Overhaul (WSJ)
• US police and fire departments partnering with Amazon’s Ring passes 2,000 (FT)
• New Linux SUDO flaw lets local users gain root privileges (Bleeping Computer)
• Augmented Reality Gets Pandemic Boost (WSJ)
• Elon Musk busts Clubhouse limit (TechCrunch)
• Recording of Musk on Clubhouse (YouTube)

Saturday, January 30 2021 - (Bonus) The First Gadgets Episode

• This Nifty Strap Lets You Control the Apple Watch With Gestures (Gizmodo)
• Sony reveals full details on its upcoming 360 Reality Audio speakers (Engadget)
• Sony’s new premium speaker looks like a giant electric razor (Android Police)
• LG TO REINFORCE INDUSTRY DOMINANCE WITH ULTIMATE TV TECHNOLOGY (LG Newsroom)
• LG’s 2021 TV lineup includes its brightest OLED ever (The Verge)
• This new module keeps Philips Hue bulbs connected even when the wall switch gets flipped (TechCrunch)
• Asus’ new Chromebook CX9 offers military-grade durability (The Verge)
• Asus ZenBeam Latte projector is as portable as a cup of coffee (SlashGear)
• Razer Unveils RGB Face Mask and Immersive Gaming Chair Concepts (IGN)
• Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 2 i bakes a bigger, better e-ink touchscreen into the lid (SlashGear)
• TCL 20 5G and TCL 20 SE are new affordable smartphones for entertainment (GSMArena)
• Vuzix’s new microLED smart glasses look like tech you’d actually want to wear on your face (The Verge)
• Vuzix’s new microLED-powered smart glasses will arrive this summer (TechCrunch)
• This is Sony’s Airpeak drone (The Verge)
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• Linksys unveils a next-gen router that senses motion in your home (CNET)
• Western Digital SSDs (AnAndTech)
• YSL’s lipstick pod gadget will create whatever shade you want (The Verge)
• Samsung’s new robot vacuum uses lidar and empties its own bin like a fancy Roomba (CNET)
• How Samsung’s JetBot 90 AI+ Reimagines Cleaning (Samsung Newsroom)

Friday, January 29 2021 - Fri. 01/29 – Robinhood Is Now The Crazy Stock Story

• Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1 Billion From Its Investors (NYTimes)
• Facebook is said to be planning newsletter tools to court independent writers (NYTimes)
• Hyundai wrestles with the risks of embracing Apple (Reuters)
• SEC scrutiny delays Roblox stock market listing (CNBC)

Thursday, January 28 2021 - Thu. 01/28 – Robinhood Freezes Stonks!

• How WallStreetBets Pushed GameStop Shares to the Moon (Bloomberg)
• WallStreetBets Founder Reckons With Legacy Amid Stock (WSJ)
• ‘Smack It Like E. Honda’: Buying NFTs for Pleasure and Profit (CoinTalk)
• Mark Zuckerberg says Apple is now one of Facebook’s biggest competitors (CNBC)
• Facebook Preps Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple (The Information)
• Apple’s App Tracking Transparency Feature will be enabled by default and arrive in ‘early spring’ on iOS (TechCrunch)
• Tesla disappoints Wall Street despite strong profits (CNN Business)

Wednesday, January 27 2021 - Wed. 01/27 – Introducing The Ride Home+ Premium Feed

• Microsoft profits jump 33 percent as pandemic continues shift to cloud computing (NYTimes)
• AT&T Q4: HBO Max Activations Double to 17.2 Million, Warner Bros. Revenue Declines 21% (Variety)
• Apple fixes another three iOS zero-days exploited in the wild (ZDNet)
• Apple just had its best quarter in India (TechCrunch)
• YouTube has paid more than $30 billion to creators, artists, and others over the last three years (The Verge)
• Plex is launching a game subscription service filled with Atari games (The Verge)
• Google open sources Tilt Brush VR software as it shuts down internal development (TechCrunch)

Tuesday, January 26 2021 - Tue. 01/26 – Twitter Acquires Revue

• Twitter acquiring newsletter publishing company Revue (Axios)
• Twitter launches ‘Birdwatch,’ a forum to combat misinformation (NBC News)
• Google warns of ‘novel social engineering method’ used to hack security researchers (The Verge)
• Dan Riccio Transitioning to New Project, John Ternus to Lead Apple’s Hardware Engineering Team (MacRumors)
• Sony’s creator-focused Xperia Pro arrives in the US priced at $2,499 (The Verge)
• Americans spend average of $47 a month on streaming services (The Desk)
• 5G boxes are coming to people’s homes, whether they want them or not (The Verge)

Monday, January 25 2021 - Mon. 01/25 – Clubhouse Raises A New Round At $1B Valuation

• Clubhouse announces plans for creator payments and raises new funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (TechCrunch)
• Big Revolution - Inside the Clubhouse (Big Revolution)
• Google will turn some of its offices into COVID-19 vaccination sites (Engadget)
• Google Maps and Search to show COVID-19 vaccination locations (LaptopMag)
• Exclusive: Google workers across the globe announce international union alliance to hold Alphabet accountable (The Verge)
• Apple officially launches new ‘Time to Walk’ feature for Apple Watch and Fitness+ (9to5Mac)
• Apple warns iPhone 12 and MagSafe accessories can interfere with medical devices (Silicon Angle)
• SPAC boom could finally provide an exit ramp for digital publishers like Buzzfeed and Vice Media (CNBC)
• When SPACs Attack! A New Force Is Invading Wall Street. (WSJ)

Saturday, January 23 2021 - (Bonus) Harvard’s Top Astronomer Avi Loeb On Oumuamua

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Friday, January 22 2021 - Fri. 01/22 – Alphabet Sends Loon To The Deadpool

• Alphabet Pops Loon’s Balloons—but Won’t Call It a Failure (Wired)
• Google threatens to shut down search in Australia if digital news code goes ahead (The Guardian)
• Apple Plans Thinner MacBook Air With Magnetic Charger in Mac Lineup Reboot (Bloomberg)
• Plaid Shareholders Field Offers at $15 Billion After Merger Collapse (The Information)

Thursday, January 21 2021 - Thu. 01/21 – Mark Gurman Dishes On The Apple VR Headset

• Apple’s First Headset to Be Niche Precursor to Eventual AR Glasses (Bloomberg)
• LG considers exiting smartphones in 2021 (The Verge)
• Amazon sends letter to President Biden, says it is ‘ready to assist’ with U.S. vaccination efforts (GeekWire)
• Facebook refers Trump ban to independent Oversight Board for review (Axios)
• Goodbye and good riddance to the 16:9 aspect ratio (The Verge)
• Pebble founder promises iMessage on Android and Windows with universal chat app (The Verge)
• WhiteHouse.gov now has dark mode (The Verge)

Wednesday, January 20 2021 - Wed. 01/20 – A16Z To Get Into The Media Business?

• Andreessen Horowitz Looks to Launch Opinion Publication as Its Media Ambition Grows (The Information)
• The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz (Newcomer)
• Donald Trump pardons ex-Waymo, Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski (Engadget)
• Jack Ma Emerges for First Time Since Ant, Alibaba Crackdown (Bloomberg)
• Brave becomes first browser to add native support for the IPFS protocol (ZDNet)
• Netflix shares rise on strong subscriber growth, considers share buybacks (CNBC)
• Netflix’s ‘Shuffle Play’ feature will roll out to all users worldwide this year (TechCrunch)
• Intel Problems (Stratechery)
• Twitter Thread on the Intel stuff (Twitter)

Tuesday, January 19 2021 - Tue. 01/19 – Qualcomm’s New Snapdragon 870

• Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 870 reheats the Snapdragon 865 for 2021 phones (The Verge)
• Microsoft invests in Cruise in new $2 billion round (TechCrunch)
• India asks WhatsApp to withdraw new privacy policy over ‘grave concerns’ (TechCrunch)
• 5G Rivals Face an $81 Billion Tab After Spectrum Buying Spree (WSJ)
• DuckDuckGo surpasses 100 million daily search queries for the first time (ZDNet)
• Electric car batteries with five-minute charging times produced (The Guardian)
• CES 2021: A deep breath for the smart home to determine its future (Stacey On IOT)

Saturday, January 16 2021 - (Bonus) Interesting Raise Episode 1!

• Hipcamp, ‘Airbnb of the Outdoors,’ Raises $57 Million (The Information)
• Local news app News Break raises $115M (TechCrunch)
• Perfect Corp., developer of virtual beauty app YouCam Makeup, closes $50 million Series C led by Goldman Sachs (TechCrunch)
• Veo raises $25M for AI-based cameras that record and analyze football and other team sports (TechCrunch)
• Graphcore raises $222M for its ultrafast AI chips (SiliconAngle)
• AI chipmaker Graphcore raises $22M at a $2.77B valuation and puts an IPO in its sights (TechCrunch)
• Fintech startup Oxygen raises $17M in Series A round (SiliconAngle)
• AMP Robotics raises $55 million for AI that picks and sorts recyclables (VentureBeat)
• WeLink raises $185M to deliver high-bandwidth wireless internet to the home using 5G (TechCrunch)

Friday, January 15 2021 - Fri. 01/15 – Are We Really Getting the MacBook of My Dreams?

• Kuo details 2021 MacBook Pro: new design with squared-off sides, MagSafe connector and IO return, Touch Bar removed (9to5Mac)
• Apple Plans Upgraded MacBook Pros With Return of Magnetic Charging (Bloomberg)
• Online clothing reseller Poshmark closes up more than 140% on first day of trading (CNBC)
• Amazon opens Alexa AI tech for the first time so car makers can build custom assistants (The Verge)
• Galaxy Book Flex2: Samsung’s first 5G laptop has an 11th-gen Intel Processor (Digital Trends)
• Shares in China’s Xiaomi tumble after US investment ban (FT)

Thursday, January 14 2021 - Thu. 01/14 – Samsung Unpacked Brings The New Galaxy S21 Lineup

• SAMSUNG GALAXY S21, S21 PLUS, AND S21 ULTRA FIRST LOOK: POLISHED DESIGN (AND PRICES) (The Verge)
• The Galaxy S21 Ultra packs two telephoto lenses and supports the S Pen (Engadget)
• Samsung’s Galaxy SmartTag is a $29.99 Tile competitor (The Verge)
• Max Levchin’s Affirm pops nearly 100% in market debut (CNBC)
• Asus’ 2021 laptop line includes two new dual-screen ZenBooks (The Verge)
• BMW’s Digital Key Plus will let iPhones unlock the iX from a pocket or bag (The Verge)
• Google’s Fitbit acquisition is official (TechCrunch)

Wednesday, January 13 2021 - Wed. 01/13 – The Visa/Plaid Merger Is Called Off

• Visa Abandons Planned Acquisition of Plaid After DOJ Challenge (WSJ)
• Qualcomm eyes challenge to Apple, Intel with $1.4 billion deal for chip startup (Reuters)
• Intel CEO Bob Swan to step down, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to replace him (CNBC)
• AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su: Interview on 2021 Demand, Supply, Tariffs, Xilinix and EPYC (AnandTech)
• Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users’ Location Data, Has Been Archived (Gizmodo)
• Parler Users Breached Deep Inside U.S. Capitol Building, GPS Data Shows (Gizmodo)
• Exclusive: Apple held talks with EV startup Canoo in 2020 (The Verge)
• WhatsApp clarifies it’s not giving all your data to Facebook after surge in Signal and Telegram users (The Verge)

Tuesday, January 12 2021 - Tue. 01/12 – Intel Unveils New Core i9-11900K Flagship Chip

• Intel Previews 11th Gen Core Rocket Lake: Core i9-11900K and Z590, Coming Q1 (AnandTech)
• Lenovo’s new ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga is less than half an inch thick (The Verge)
• Walmart to create fintech start-up with investment firm behind Robinhood (CNBC)
• Aptiv unveils new self-driving platform with wireless upgrades (Reuters)
• GM unveils electric delivery van with 250 miles of range as part of new spinoff business (The Verge)
• Parler sues Amazon, leveling far-fetched antitrust allegations (The Verge)
• Following Trump Ban, Facebook Tells Employees to Avoid Wearing Company-Branded Apparel (The Information)
• LG’s Rollable phone is real and launching in 2021 (The Verge)

Monday, January 11 2021 - Mon. 01/11 – All Of Tech Kills Parler

• Amazon Is Booting Parler Off Of Its Web Hosting Service (Buzzfeed)
• Parler CEO Says Service Dropped By “Every Vendor” And Could End His Business (Deadline)
• San Francisco police are prepping for a pro-Trump rally at Twitter headquarters (TechCrunch)
• HP launches new Envy 14 laptop, Elite Folio 2-in1 tablet, and new… earbuds? (Android Authority)
• Lenovo’s ThinkReality A3 Smart Glasses can show up to five virtual displays (Engadget)
• HyperX made its first 60-percent mechanical gaming keyboard (The Verge)
• WHY CHAMBERLAIN BUILT A $3,000 AUTOMATIC GARAGE DOOR FOR YOUR DOG (The Verge)

Friday, January 08 2021 - Fri. 01/08 – An Apple/Hyundai Car?

• Hyundai Motor says it’s in early talks with Apple to develop a car, sends shares soaring 19% (CNBC)
• SolarWinds hires former Trump cyber security chief Chris Krebs (FT)
• Encrypted Messaging App Signal Sees Surge in Popularity Following WhatsApp Privacy Policy Update (MacRumors)
• Roku TV Was the Top Selling Smart TV OS in 2020 (The Streamable)
• A New Service Seeks to Streamline Your Streaming (WSJ)
• ‘TV Remote’ is an app that turns your iPhone into a universal control for your TV (9to5Mac)

Thursday, January 07 2021 - Thu. 01/07 – Yes, There’s A Tech Angle To Yesterday’s Events…

• Twitter and Facebook Lock Trump’s Accounts After Violence on Capitol Hill (NYTimes)
• Widely Used Software Company May Be Entry Point for Huge U.S. Hacking (NYTimes)
• SuperData: Games grew 12% to $139.9 billion in 2020 amid pandemic (VentureBeat)
• Wi-Fi industry launches next-gen 6E certification, and new devices are up next (CNET)
• Democrats have won the Senate. Here’s what it means for tech. (Protocol)
• Mercedes-Benz unveils its absolutely massive 56-inch ‘Hyperscreen’ display (The Verge)

Wednesday, January 06 2021 - Wed. 01/06 – New GPT-3 Models Can Generate Images From Text

• This avocado armchair could be the future of AI (MIT Technology Review)
• DALL·E: Creating Images from Text (OpenAI Blog)
• Trump bars U.S. transactions with eight Chinese apps including Alipay (Reuters)
• WhatsApp updates its Terms and Privacy Policy to mandate data-sharing with Facebook (XDA)
• CIRP: iPhone 12 sales strong at launch, but iPhone 12 mini ‘likely disappointed Apple’ (9to5Mac)
• Players in Eve Online broke a world record — and then the game itself (Polygon)
• Cameo launches hiring spree following banner year (Axios)

Tuesday, January 05 2021 - Tue. 01/05 – US Banks Can Now Issue Stablecoins

• US regulator: Federally chartered banks can facilitate stablecoin payments, issue their own (The Block)
• Twitter acquires social podcasting app Breaker, team to help build Twitter Spaces (TechCrunch)
• Microsoft’s new ‘One Outlook’ app leaks online (The Verge)
• Haven, the Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan venture to disrupt health care, is disbanding after 3 years (CNBC)
• Kuo: Apple to Unveil AirTags, Augmented Reality Device, and More in 2021 (MacRumors)
• Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Has Been Missing For 2 Months (ZeroHedge)
• Singapore police can access COVID-19 contact tracing data for criminal investigations (ZDNet)
• Dell built a range of monitors for video conferencing (Engadget)
• Dell’s new Latitude 9000 laptops feature an automatic webcam shutter (Engadget)

Monday, January 04 2021 - Mon. 01/04 – Some Google Workers Say Union YES!

• Google, Alphabet employees seek to form a union (TechCrunch)
• Samsung officially confirms Galaxy S21 event for January 14th (The Verge)
• Microsoft planning ‘sweeping visual rejuvenation of Windows’ (The Verge)
• Google and Snap in talks to invest in India’s ShareChat (TechCrunch)
• Trade-in site Gazelle is ending trade-ins (The Verge)
• Apple will let Amphetamine app stay in the App Store after wrongly telling developer it violated App Store rules (The Verge)
• This LG display transforms from flat to curved for immersive gaming (The Verge)